Iniquity
עֲוָיָהStrong’s H5758avayah (a-va-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avayah is the Aramaic word usually translated “iniquities your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”
Meaning
- Perversity, iniquity
How it's translated
- and iniquities your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
עֲוָיָה avayah · iniquity
perversity, iniquity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “iniquity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INIQ'UITY, noun
[Latin iniquitas; in and oequitas, equity.]
- Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.
- Want of rectitude in principle; as a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
- A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice.“Your iniquities have separated between you and your God” Isaiah 59:2
- Original want of holiness or depravity.“I was shapen in iniquity” Psalms 51:5
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.