ʻâvath — H5791

Definition

verb

to wrest

1. to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert
1. (Piel)
1. to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
2. to bend, make crooked
2. (Pual) thing bent (participle)
3. (Hithpael) to bend oneself

Usually translated as

pervert, crooked, falsifying, deal perversely, subvert, bow self, overthrow, turn upside down

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• adikéō (G91)
• aphanízō (G853)
• daneízō (G1155)
• dáneion (G1156)
• diastréphō (G1294)
• ekklínō (G1578)
• exairéō (G1807)
• katadikázō (G2613)
• tarássō (G5015)

Occurrences

ʻâvath occurs 11 times in 10 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (3), Psalms (2), Ecclesiastes (3), Lamentations (1), Amos (1)

• Job 8:3 — Doth God pervert (יְעַוֵּ֣ת) judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
• Job 8:3 — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert (יְעַוֵּֽת) justice?
• Job 19:6 — Know now that God hath overthrown (עִוְּתָ֑נִי) me, and hath compassed me with his net.
• Job 34:12 — Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert (יְעַוֵּ֥ת) judgment.
• Psalms 119:78 — Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely (עִוְּת֑וּנִי) with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
• Psalms 146:9 — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down (יְעַוֵּֽת).
• Ecclesiastes 1:15 — That which is crooked (מְעֻוָּ֖ת) cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
• Ecclesiastes 7:13 — Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked (עִוְּתֽוֹ)?
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves (וְהִֽתְעַוְּת֖וּ), and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
• Lamentations 3:36 — To subvert (לְעַוֵּ֤ת) a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
• Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying (וּלְעַוֵּ֖ת) the balances by deceit?