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H5791Hebrew

עָוַת

Definition and meaning

`avath (aw-vath') v. 1. to wrest [a primitive root] KJV: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

Tagged KJV passages

10 matching verses - 11.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Matched English: pervert, pervertJob 19:6

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Matched English: overthrownJob 34:12

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

Matched English: pervertPsalms 119:78

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Matched English: perverselyPsalms 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Matched English: downEcclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Matched English: crookedEcclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Matched English: crookedEcclesiastes 12:3

In 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,

Matched English: bowLamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Matched English: subvertAmos 8:5

Saying, 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?

Matched English: falsifying