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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #5753 - עָוָה

Transliteration

‛âvâh

Phonetics

aw-vaw'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

1577

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to bend, twist, distort

1a) (Niphal) to be bent, be bowed down, be twisted, be perverted

1b) (Piel) to twist, distort

1c) (Hiphil) to do perversely

2) to commit iniquity, do wrong, pervert

2a) (Qal) to do wrong, commit iniquity

2b) (Hiphil) to commit iniquity

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 191 ‑ ἀκούω (ak‑oo'‑o); 764 ‑ ἀσεβέω (as‑eb‑eh'‑o); 818 ‑ ἀτιμάζω (at‑im‑ad'‑zo); 1014 ‑ βούλομαι (boo'‑lom‑ahee); 1262 ‑ διαλύω (dee‑al‑oo'‑o); 2106 ‑ εὐδοκέω (yoo‑dok‑eh'‑o); 2309 ‑ θέλω (); 3975 ‑ παχύνω (pakh‑oo'‑no); 4337 ‑ προσέχω (pros‑ekh'‑o); 93 ‑ ἀδικία (ad‑ee‑kee'‑ah); 2064 ‑ ἔρχομαι (er'‑khom‑ahee); 2554 ‑ κακοποιέω (kak‑op‑oy‑eh'‑o); 5003 ‑ ταλαιπωρέω (tal‑ahee‑po‑reh'‑o); 140 ‑ αἱρετίζω (hahee‑ret‑id'‑zo); 343 ‑ ἀνακαλύπτω (an‑ak‑al‑oop'‑to); 2309 ‑ θέλω (); 5015 ‑ ταράσσω (tar‑as'‑so); 91 ‑ ἀδικέω (ad‑ee‑keh'‑o); 93 ‑ ἀδικία (ad‑ee‑kee'‑ah);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

KJV (17)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Chronicles

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Daniel

HCS ( 0 )

HCS (17)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Chronicles

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Daniel

BSB (17)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Chronicles

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Daniel

ESV (15)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Chronicles

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Daniel

WEB (15)

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

Esther

Job

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Daniel

Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1511) e g (גהה GhH) AC: Twist CO: Rope AB: ?: The pictograph g is a picture of a twisted rope. Twisted cords that form a thick rope. Related to the parent fg.

J) e f g (גהוה GhWH) AC: Twist CO: ? AB: ?

V) e f g (גהוה GhWH) - Twist: To be twisted in ones actions. KJV (17): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Piel) iniquity, perverse, pervert, amiss, turn, crooked, bow, trouble, wicked, wrong - Strongs: H5753 (עָוָה)

N^f1) e f g (גהוה GhWH) - Twist: KJV (3): overturn - Strongs: H5754 (עַוָּה)

f^f1) e i f g (גהויה GhWYH) - Twisted: [Aramaic only] KJV (1): iniquities - Strongs: H5758 (עֲוָיָה)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

עָוָה

(1) i.q. Arab. عوى to bend, to curve, to twist, to distort (cogn. root אָוָה), see Niph. Pi. Hiph.

(2) to act perversely, to sin (compare חָבַל No. II. 2), Daniel 9:5 followed by עַל of pers. Esther 1:16. (Arab. غوى to err, to be led astray.)

Niphal

(1) to be distorted, to writhe, with pains and spasms, like a parturient woman. Isaiah 21:3, נַעֲוֵיתִי מִשְּׁמֹעַ “I writhe, so that I cannot hear,” also to be, bowed, to be depressed by calamities, Psalms 38:7.

(2) to be perverse. Proverbs 12:8, נַעֲוֵה לֵב “(a man) perverse of heart.” 1 Samuel 20:30, בֶּן־נַעֲוַת הַמַּרְדּוּת “thou son of the perverse rebellious (woman),” i.e. of a perverse rebellious mother.

Piel, to pervert, to subvert, to overturn. Isaiah 24:1, עִוָּה פָנֶיהָ “he subverteth the face thereof” (of the earth). Lamentations 3:9, נְתִיבוֹתַי עִוָּה “he has subverted my ways.” Compare הָפַךְ.

Hiphil, to make crooked, to pervert, as to pervert right, Job 33:27 to pervert one’s way, i.e. course of action, i.e. to act perversely, Jerem. 3:21 then by the omission of דֶּרֶךְ to act perversely, 2 Samuel 7:14, 19:20 24:17.

Derived nouns, עַוָּה, עָוֹן, עִוְעִים, עִי, מְעִי Chald. עִוְיָא, and the pr.n. עַוִּי, עִוָּה, עֲוִית, עַי, עִיִּים, עִיּוֹן.

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List of Word Forms

בְּהַ֣עֲוֹת֔וֹ בהעותו הֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּ הֶעֱוֵ֔יתִי הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִי הֶעֱוָ֣ה הֶעֱוּוּ֙ הַעֲוֵ֥ה העוה העוו העוינו העויתי וְהֶעֱוִ֖ינוּ וְנַעֲוֵה־ וְעִוָּ֣ה וְעָוִ֖ינוּ והעוינו ונעוה־ ועוה ועוינו נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי נַעֲוַ֖ת נעויתי נעות עִוָּֽה׃ עָוְתָ֖ה עוה׃ עותה ‘ā·wə·ṯāh ‘āwəṯāh ‘iw·wāh ‘iwwāh aveTah bə·ha·‘ă·wō·ṯōw bəha‘ăwōṯōw ha‘ăwêh ha·‘ă·wêh haaVeh he‘ĕwāh he‘ĕwêṯî he‘ĕwînū he‘ĕwwū he·‘ĕ·wāh he·‘ĕ·wê·ṯî he·‘ĕ·wî·nū he·‘ĕw·wū heeVah heeVeiti heeVinu heevVu ivVah na‘ăwaṯ na‘ăwêṯî na·‘ă·waṯ na·‘ă·wê·ṯî naaVat naaVeiti O veaVinu veheeVinu veivVah venaaveh wə‘āwînū wə‘iwwāh wə·‘ā·wî·nū wə·‘iw·wāh wə·he·‘ĕ·wî·nū wə·na·‘ă·wêh- wəhe‘ĕwînū wəna‘ăwêh-

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