H5791Verb11 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Job 8:3יְעַוֵּת
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Psalm 119:78עִוְּתוּנִי
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15מְעֻוָּת
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Lamentations 3:36לְעַוֵּת
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
- Amos 8:5וּלְעַוֵּת
asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.