Hebrew verb · H5791
עָוַת
avathaw-vath'
to pervert
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâvath
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5791is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5791
to wrest
The King James renders it: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
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
avath is rendered "to pervert". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five 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 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 8:3יְעַוֵּ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven 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
- does he pervert2
- and they will bend themselves1
- and to falsify1
- bent1
- he has bent it1
- he has wronged me1
- he makes crooked1
- he perverts1
- they have subverted me1
- to subvert1
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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ1
- וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת1
- יְעַוֵּ֣ת1
- יְעַוֵּ֥ת1
- יְעַוֵּֽת־1
- יְעַוֵּֽת׃1
- לְעַוֵּ֤ת1
- מְעֻוָּ֖ת1
- עִוְּתֽוֹ׃1
- עִוְּת֑וּנִי1
- עִוְּתָ֑נִי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVpi3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vpcc
- Hc/Vtq3cp1Hc/Vtq3cp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVpp3ms/Sp1bs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms/Sp3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular1HVPsmsa
Job
four uses
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- יְעַוֵּ֣תyeavetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he pervert
- יְעַוֵּֽת־yeavet-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he pervert
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- עִוְּתָ֑נִיʾivetaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has wronged me
Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
- יְעַוֵּ֥תyeavetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he perverts
Psalms
two uses
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- עִוְּת֑וּנִיʾivetuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have subverted me
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- יְעַוֵּֽת׃yeavetverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes crooked
Ecclesiastes
three uses
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- מְעֻוָּ֖תmeuvatverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: bent
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- עִוְּתֽוֹ׃ivetoverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has bent it
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,
- וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּvehitavetuHc/Vtq3cptagged: and they will bend themselves
Lamentations
one use
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
- לְעַוֵּ֤תleavetpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to subvert
Amos
one use
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.
- וּלְעַוֵּ֖תuleavetconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to falsify
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.