Hebrew verb · H5753
עָוָה
avahaw-vaw'
to twist; to pervert
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5753is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5753
to crook, literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, [idiom] turn, do wickedly, do wrong.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
avah is rendered "to twist; to pervert". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to twist".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
1 Samuel 20:30נַעֲוַ֖ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to twist, and to pervert.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to twistStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him… |
| to pervertStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- we have done wrong2
- and a perverted of1
- and he will twist1
- and we have committed iniquity1
- and we have done wrong1
- he did perversely1
- he has made crooked1
- I am bent down1
- I am bent over1
- I have done wrong1
- I have perverted1
- she did wrong1
and 4 more, 17 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי2
- בְּהַ֣עֲוֹת֔וֹ1
- הֶעֱוָ֣ה1
- הַעֲוֵ֥ה1
- הֶעֱוּוּ֙1
- הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּ1
- הֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ1
- הֶעֱוֵ֔יתִי1
- הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִי1
- וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ1
- וְנַעֲוֵה־1
- וְעִוָּ֣ה1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural2HVhp1cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVNp1cs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HC/Vhp1cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/VNrmsc
- Hc/Vpq3ms1Hc/Vpq3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HC/Vqp1cp
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Vhcc/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute1HVhaa
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVhp3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVNrfsc
1 Samuel
one use
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?
- נַעֲוַ֖תnaavatverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the perverse of
2 Samuel
three uses
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
- בְּהַ֣עֲוֹת֔וֹbehaotopreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when does wrong he
and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.
- הֶעֱוָ֣הheevahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he did perversely
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
- הֶעֱוֵ֔יתִיheeveitiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have done wrong
1 Kings
one use
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
- וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּveheevinuconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and we have done wrong
2 Chronicles
one use
and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’
- הֶעֱוִ֖ינוּheevinuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have done wrong
Esther
one use
And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
- עָוְתָ֖הʾavetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she did wrong
Job
one use
Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
- הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִיheeveitiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have perverted
Psalms
two uses
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיnaaveitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am bent down
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
- הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּheevinuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have done wrong
Proverbs
one use
A man is praised according to his wisdom, but a twisted mind is despised.
- וְנַעֲוֵה־venaaveh-conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a perverted of
Isaiah
two uses
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
- נַעֲוֵ֣יתִיnaaveitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am bent over
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
- וְעִוָּ֣הveivahHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will twist
Jeremiah
two uses
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
- הֶעֱוּוּ֙heevuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have perverted
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
- הַעֲוֵ֥הhaavehverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: to iniquire
Lamentations
one use
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- עִוָּֽה׃ סʾivahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made crooked
Daniel
one use
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
- וְעָוִ֖ינוּveavinuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and we have committed iniquity
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.