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? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?Job 19:6 · עִוְּתָ֑נִיknow now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.Job 34:12 · יְעַוֵּ֥תYes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.Psalm 119:78 · עִוְּת֑וּנִיLet the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.Psalm 146:9 · יְעַוֵּֽת׃Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.Ecclesiastes 1:15 · מְעֻוָּ֖תThat which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.Ecclesiastes 7:13 · עִוְּתֽוֹ׃Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,Lamentations 3:36 · לְעַוֵּ֤תTo subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.Amos 8:5 · וּלְעַוֵּ֖תSaying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;