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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #5791 - עָוַת

Transliteration

‛âvath

Phonetics

aw-vath'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

1591

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert

1a2) to bend, make crooked

1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle)

1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1156 ‑ δάνειον (dan'‑i‑on); 1294 ‑ διαστρέφω (dee‑as‑tref'‑o); 91 ‑ ἀδικέω (ad‑ee‑keh'‑o); 853 ‑ ἀφανίζω (af‑an‑id'‑zo); 1578 ‑ ἐκκλίνω (ek‑klee'‑no); 1807 ‑ ἐξαιρέω (ex‑ahee‑reh'‑o); 2613 ‑ καταδικάζω (kat‑ad‑ik‑ad'‑zo); 5015 ‑ ταράσσω (tar‑as'‑so); 1155 ‑ δανείζω (dan‑ide'‑zo);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (11)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

NAS (11)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

HCS (11)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

BSB (11)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

ESV (10)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

WEB (11)

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Lamentations

Amos

Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1528) t g (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) t f g (גהות GhWT) AC: Twist CO: Crooked AB: ?

V) t f g (גהות GhWT) - Twist: KJV (11): (vf: Hitpael, Pual, Piel, Participle) pervert, crooked, bow, falsify, overthrow, subvert - Strongs: H5791 (עָוַת)

N^f1) e t f g (גהותה GhWTH) - Crookedness: KJV (1): wrong - Strongs: H5792 (עַוָּתָה)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

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.

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List of Word Forms

וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת והתעותו ולעות יְעַוֵּ֣ת יְעַוֵּ֥ת יְעַוֵּֽת־ יְעַוֵּֽת׃ יעות יעות־ יעות׃ לְעַוֵּ֤ת לעות מְעֻוָּ֖ת מעות עִוְּת֑וּנִי עִוְּתָ֑נִי עִוְּתֽוֹ׃ עותו׃ עותוני עותני ‘iw·wə·ṯā·nî ‘iw·wə·ṯōw ‘iw·wə·ṯū·nî ‘iwwəṯānî ‘iwwəṯōw ‘iwwəṯūnî ivveTani ivveTo ivveTuni lə‘awwêṯ lə·‘aw·wêṯ leavVet mə‘uwwāṯ mə·‘uw·wāṯ meuvVat ū·lə·‘aw·wêṯ ūlə‘awwêṯ uleavVet vehitavveTu wə·hiṯ·‘aw·wə·ṯū wəhiṯ‘awwəṯū yə‘awwêṯ yə‘awwêṯ- yə·‘aw·wêṯ yə·‘aw·wêṯ- yeavVet

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