Word Study · Strong's H5932 · Hebrew

עַלְוָה

alvah

al-vaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻalvâh

“moral perverseness”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

moral perverseness

Rendered in the KJV as

iniquity.

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occurrencein the Old Testament
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Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
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inflected formdistinct spellings

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The word itself

Inflected forms · 1

עַֽלְוָֽה׃1

How it is rendered · 1

injustice1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 1

noun · feminine singular1

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Hosea1 occurrence

Hosea 10:9עַֽלְוָֽה׃ʾalvahnoun · feminine singularSince the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?here: injustice

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled עַלְוָה

H5933 · 2×

עַלְוָה

Alvah

“Alvah or Aljah, an Idumaean”

Read Hosea 10:9 in context →