Strong’s H5791 · Hebrew
עָוַת
ʻâvath · aw-vath'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to wrest
In the King James Version bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
In 10 verses of the King James Version
- Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Job 34:12Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
- Psalms 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- Psalms 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
- Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
- Amos 8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.