Unjust
עַוָּלStrong’s H5767avval (av-val)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avval is the Hebrew word usually translated “evil-doer”, “like an evil-doer” and “unrighteous”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.”
Meaning
- Unjust one, perverse one, unrighteous one
How it's translated
- an evil-doer 1
- like an evil-doer 1
- unrighteous 1
- to an evil-doer 1
- an unrighteous person 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 27:7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
- Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Job 31:3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Zephaniah 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Hebrew dictionary
עַוָּל avval · unjust
unjust one, perverse one, unrighteous one
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “evildoer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EVILDO'ER, noun
[evil and doer, from do.]
One who does evil; one who commits sin, crime, or any moral wrong.
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.