1) to bend, twist, distort 1a) (Niphal) to be bent, be bowed down, be twisted, be perverted 1b) (Piel) to twist, distort 1c) (Hiphil) to do perversely
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H5753 — עָוָה
a.vah · to twist · Hebrew/Aramaic
17 tagged verse occurrences
1 Samuel 20:30 · נַעֲוַ֖תAnd the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, ‘Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother?2 Samuel 7:14 · בְּהַ֣עֲוֹת֔וֹI am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,2 Samuel 19:19 · הֶעֱוָ֣הand saith unto the king, ‘Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem,—for the king to set it unto his heart;2 Samuel 24:17 · הֶעֱוֵ֔יתִיAnd David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, ‘Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these—the flock—what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.’1 Kings 8:47 · וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּand they have turned it back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely—we have done wickedly;2 Chronicles 6:37 · הֶעֱוִ֖ינוּand they have turned it back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;Esther 1:16 · עָוְתָ֖הAnd Memucan saith before the king and the heads, ‘Not against the king by himself hath Vashti the queen done perversely, but against all the heads, and against all the peoples that are in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus;Job 33:27 · הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִיHe looketh on men, and saith, ‘I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.Psalm 38:6 · נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיI have been bent down, I have been bowed down—unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.Psalm 106:6 · הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּWe have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.Proverbs 12:8 · וְנַעֲוֵה־According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.Isaiah 21:3 · נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיTherefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.Isaiah 24:1 · וְעִוָּ֣הLo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.Jeremiah 3:21 · הֶעֱוּוּ֙A voice on high places is heard—weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.Jeremiah 9:5 · הַעֲוֵ֥הAnd each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.Lamentations 3:9 · עִוָּֽה׃ סHe hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.Daniel 9:5 · וְעָוִ֖ינוּwe have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments: