Injustice
עָ֫וֶלStrong’s H5766evel (e-vel)
Appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Evel is the Hebrew word usually translated “injustice”, “unrighteousness” and “from unrighteousness”. It appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.”
Meaning
- Injustice, unrighteousness
How it's translated
- injustice 29
- unrighteousness 13
- and injustice 2
- with injustice 2
- from unrighteousness 1
- in injustice 1
- from injustice 1
- for injustice his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 12
- Psalms 12
- Ezekiel 9
- Leviticus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- 2 Samuel 2
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 19:35Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- Deuteronomy 25:16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- 2 Samuel 3:34Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
- 2 Samuel 7:10Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
- 1 Chronicles 17:9Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
All 52 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
עָ֫וֶל evel · injustice
injustice, unrighteousness Another spelling of av.lah (עַוְלָה "injustice" H5766B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “injustice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
INJUS'TICE, noun
[Latin injustitia; in and justitia, justice.]
- Iniquity; wrong; any violation of another's rights, as fraud in contracts, or the withholding of what is due.
- The withholding from another merited praise, or ascribing to him unmerited blame.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.