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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #5791 - עָוַת
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1528) tg (גהת GhT) AC: Twist CO: Rope AB: ?: The pictograph g is a picture of a twisted rope. The t is a picture of a mark. Combined these mean "twisted mark".
J) tfg (גהות GhWT) AC: Twist CO: Crooked AB: ?
V) tfg (גהות GhWT) - Twist: KJV (11): (vf: Hitpael, Pual, Piel, Participle) pervert, crooked, bow, falsify, overthrow, subvert - Strongs: H5791 (עָוַת)
Nf1) etfg (גהותה GhWTH) - Crookedness: KJV (1): wrong - Strongs: H5792 (עַוָּתָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
עָוַת not used in Kal; to be bent, inflected, i.q. the kindred verbs עָבַת, עָבַט.
Piel עִוֵּת to bend, to curve, to pervert, Ecclesiastes 7:13. Metaph. to pervert right, Job 8:3, 34:12 compare Amos 8:5 also with an accus. of person, to bend or pervert the cause of any one, Lamentations 3:36; Job 19:6; Psalms 119:78. עִוֵּת דֶּרֶךְ פּ׳ to pervert any one’s way, i.e. to lead him astray, Psalms 146:9.
Pual, part. crooked, Ecclesiastes 1:15.
Hithpael, to bow oneself, Ecclesiastes 12:3.
Derivative, עַוָּתָה.
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20