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־Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?Job 19:6 · עִוְּתָ֑נִיthen understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.Job 34:12 · יְעַוֵּ֥תIndeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.Psalm 119:78 · עִוְּת֑וּנִיMay the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.Psalm 146:9 · יְעַוֵּֽת׃The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.Ecclesiastes 1:15 · מְעֻוָּ֖תWhat is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.Ecclesiastes 7:13 · עִוְּתֽוֹ׃Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?Ecclesiastes 12:3 · וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּon the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,Lamentations 3:36 · לְעַוֵּ֤תto subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.Amos 8:5 · וּלְעַוֵּ֖תasking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.