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 judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?Job 19:6 · עִוְּתָ֑נִיKnow now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.Job 34:12 · יְעַוֵּ֥תYea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.Psalm 119:78 · עִוְּת֑וּנִיLet the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.Psalm 146:9 · יְעַוֵּֽת׃The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.Ecclesiastes 1:15 · מְעֻוָּ֖ת[That 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 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 corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?