Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5766
עֶוֶל
eveleh'-vel
injustice; injustice
54 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻevel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5766is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 30spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5766
(moral) evil
The King James renders it: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
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
evel is rendered "injustice; injustice". It stands 54 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "injustice".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- The Greek text spells it thirty different ways.
The first use
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Leviticus 19:15עָ֙וֶל֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in sixteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: injustice, and injustice.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| injusticeStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLeviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the… |
| injusticeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- injustice26
- unrighteousness11
- and injustice2
- injustices2
- with injustice2
- and in unrighteousness his1
- and unrighteousness1
- by injustice1
- by unrighteousness of1
- for injustice his1
- from injustice1
- from unrighteousness1
and 4 more, 54 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.
The words it stands beside
All 54, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
30 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
- עַוְלָ֑ה6
- עָ֑וֶל5
- עַוְלָֽה׃5
- עָ֔וֶל4
- עַ֝וְלָ֗ה3
- עַוְלָה֙3
- בְּעַוְלָֽה׃2
- עָ֥וֶל2
- עָ֖וֶל2
- עַוְלָ֥תָה2
- בְּעֶ֙וֶל֙1
- בְּעוֹלָ֑ה1
and 18 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular23HNcfsa
- noun · masculine singular16HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular4HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular3HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)1HNcfsa/Sd
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Leviticus
two uses
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- עָ֙וֶל֙ʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
- עָ֖וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Deuteronomy
two uses
For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
- עָֽוֶל׃ פʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: of injustice
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- עָ֔וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
2 Samuel
two uses
Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. As a man falls before the wicked, so also you fell.” And all the people wept over him even more.
- עַוְלָ֖הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
- עַוְלָה֙ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
1 Chronicles
one use
And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning
- עַוְלָה֙ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
2 Chronicles
one use
And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
- עַוְלָ֛הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Job
twelve uses
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- וְ֝עֹלָ֗תָהveolatahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and injustice
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- עַוְלָֽה׃ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unrighteousness
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- עַוְלָֽה׃ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unrighteousness
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- עַ֝וְלָ֗הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
- עַוְלָֽה׃ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.
- מֵעָֽוֶל׃meavelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from unrighteousness
Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- עָ֥וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?
- עַוְלָֽה׃ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unrighteousness
Psalms
twelve uses
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
- עָ֥וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
- עַוְלָֽה׃ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: of unrighteousness
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
- וְעַוְלָ֣הveavlahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and injustice
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
- עָ֝֗וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
- עוֹלֹ֪תolotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: injustices
They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
- עוֹלֹ֗תolotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: injustices
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
- עָ֑וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
- עַ֝וְלָ֗הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”
- עַוְלָ֥תָהavlatahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
- עַ֝וְלָ֗הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unrighteousness
They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
- בְּעַוְלָ֬תָהbeavlatahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: in injustice
Proverbs
two uses
He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- עַ֭וְלָהʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unrighteousness
An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
- עָ֑וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Isaiah
two uses
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- עַוְלָ֥הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- בְּעוֹלָ֑הbeolahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with injustice
Jeremiah
one use
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- עָ֔וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
Ezekiel
eleven uses
Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
- עָ֔וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- מֵעָ֖וֶלmeavelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from injustice
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
- עָ֔וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- עָ֖וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: injustice
- בְּעַוְל֥וֹbeavlopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for injustice his
From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
- עַוְלָ֖תָהʾavlatahnoun · feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: unrighteousness towards
By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
- בְּעֶ֙וֶל֙beevelpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: by unrighteousness of
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
- עָ֑וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
- וּבְעַוְל֥וֹuveavloconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and in unrighteousness his
if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
- עָ֑וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
- עָ֑וֶלʾavelnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteousness
Hosea
one use
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
- עַוְלָ֥תָהʾavlatahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Micah
one use
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- בְּעַוְלָֽה׃beavlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: with injustice
Habakkuk
one use
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- בְּעַוְלָֽה׃beavlahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: by injustice
Zephaniah
two uses
The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
- עַוְלָ֑הʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
- עַוְלָה֙ʾavlahnoun · feminine singulartagged: injustice
Malachi
one use
True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
- וְעַוְלָ֖הveavlahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and unrighteousness
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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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.