Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5767
עַוָּל
avvalav-vawl'
unjust
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻavvâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5767is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5767
evil (morally)
The King James renders it: unjust, unrighteous, wicked.
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
avval is rendered "unjust". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 18:21Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Job 18:21עַוָּ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's five uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an evil-doer1
- an unrighteous person1
- like an evil-doer1
- to an evil-doer1
- unrighteous1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- עַוָּ֑ל2
- כְעַוָּֽל׃1
- לְעַוָּ֑ל1
- עַוָּ֖ל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
Job
four uses
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
- עַוָּ֑לʾavalnoun · masculine singulartagged: an evil-doer
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
- כְעַוָּֽל׃kheavalpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like an evil-doer
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- עַוָּ֑לʾavalnoun · masculine singulartagged: unrighteous
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- לְעַוָּ֑לleavalpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to an evil-doer
Zephaniah
one use
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.
- עַוָּ֖לʾavalnoun · masculine singulartagged: an unrighteous person
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.