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? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?Job 19:6 · עִוְּתָ֑נִיKnow now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,Job 34:12 · יְעַוֵּ֥תYea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.Psalm 119:78 · עִוְּת֑וּנִיAshamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.Psalm 146:9 · יְעַוֵּֽת׃Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.Ecclesiastes 1:15 · מְעֻוָּ֖תA crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.Ecclesiastes 7:13 · עִוְּתֽוֹ׃See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?Ecclesiastes 12:3 · וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּIn the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,Lamentations 3:36 · לְעַוֵּ֤תTo subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.Amos 8:5 · וּלְעַוֵּ֖תSaying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.