1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert 1a)(Piel) 1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert 1a2) to bend, make crooked 1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle) 1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself
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H5791 — עָוַת
a.vat · to pervert · Hebrew/Aramaic
10 tagged verse occurrences
Job 8:3 · יְעַוֵּ֣ת · יְעַוֵּֽת־Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?Job 19:6 · עִוְּתָ֑נִיKnow now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.Job 34:12 · יְעַוֵּ֥תYea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.Psalm 119:78 · עִוְּת֑וּנִיLet the proud be put to shame; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I will meditate on thy precepts.Psalm 146:9 · יְעַוֵּֽת׃Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.Ecclesiastes 1:15 · מְעֻוָּ֖תThat which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.Ecclesiastes 7:13 · עִוְּתֽוֹ׃Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?Ecclesiastes 12:3 · וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּin 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 shall be darkened,Lamentations 3:36 · לְעַוֵּ֤תTo subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.Amos 8:5 · וּלְעַוֵּ֖תsaying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;