עָוַת
a.vat
1. to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert
a. (Piel)
1. to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
2. to bend, make crooked
b. (Pual) thing bent (participle)
c. (Hithpael) to bend oneself
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 10 verses
- Job 8:3 יְעַוֵּ֣תיְעַוֵּֽת־
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 19:6 עִוְּתָ֑נִי
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- Job 34:12 יְעַוֵּ֥ת
Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
- Psalms 119:78 עִוְּת֑וּנִי
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Psalms 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 מְעֻוָּ֖ת
What 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 וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ
on 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 לְעַוֵּ֤ת
to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
- Amos 8:5 וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת
asking, “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.
