Usually translated as
commit iniquity, perverse, perversely, do amiss, make crooked, do wickedly, do wrong, bow down, pervert, trouble, turn
Occurrences
ʻâvâh occurs 17 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Esther (1), Job (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (2), Lamentations (1), Daniel (1)
- 1 Samuel 20:30 — Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse (נַעֲוַ֖ת) rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?
- 2 Samuel 7:14 — I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity (בְּהַ֣עֲוֹת֔וֹ), I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
- 2 Samuel 19:19 — And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely (הֶעֱוָ֣ה) the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
- 2 Samuel 24:17 — And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly (הֶעֱוֵ֔יתִי): but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.
- 1 Kings 8:47 — Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely (וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ), we have committed wickedness;
- 2 Chronicles 6:37 — Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss (הֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ), and have dealt wickedly;
- Esther 1:16 — And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong (עָוְתָ֖ה) to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Job 33:27 — He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted (הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִי) that which was right, and it profited me not;
- Psalms 38:6 — I am troubled (נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי); I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- Psalms 106:6 — We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity (הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּ), we have done wickedly.
- Proverbs 12:8 — A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse (וְנַעֲוֵה) heart shall be despised.
- Isaiah 21:3 — Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down (נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי) at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
- Isaiah 24:1 — Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down (וְעִוָּ֣ה), and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
- Jeremiah 3:21 — A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted (הֶעֱוּוּ֙) their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
- Jeremiah 9:5 — And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity (הַעֲוֵ֥ה).
- Lamentations 3:9 — He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked (עִוָּֽה).
- Daniel 9:5 — We have sinned, and have committed iniquity (וְעָוִ֖ינוּ), and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: