avan (iniquity) · Rightly

Meaning

Perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquityiniquity · guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition) · consequence of or punishment for iniquity

How it's translated

iniquity of 31
iniquity their 28
iniquity 26
iniquity your 14
iniquity his 9
iniquities your 8
guilt of 7
iniquity my 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Ezekiel 38
Psalms 29
Isaiah 24
Jeremiah 23
Leviticus 16
Job 15

26 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Daniel 9:16In contextO LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
Daniel 9:24In contextSeventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Zechariah 3:4In contextAnd he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
Zechariah 3:9In contextFor behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Genesis 4:13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

All 215 verses, by book

Genesis 4: 4:13 15:16 19:15 44:16
Exodus 5: 20:5 28:38 28:43 34:7 34:9
Leviticus 16: 5:1 5:17 7:18 10:17 16:21 16:22 17:16 18:25 19:8 20:17 20:19 22:16 26:39 26:40 26:41 26:43
Numbers 9: 5:15 5:31 14:18 14:19 14:34 15:31 18:1 18:23 30:15
Deuteronomy 2: 5:9 19:15
Joshua 2: 22:17 22:20
1 Samuel 7: 3:13 3:14 14:41 20:1 20:8 25:24 28:10
2 Samuel 6: 3:8 14:9 14:32 19:19 22:24 24:10
1 Kings 1: 17:18
2 Kings 1: 7:9
1 Chronicles 1: 21:8
Ezra 3: 9:6 9:7 9:13
Nehemiah 2: 4:5 9:2
Job 15: 7:21 10:6 10:14 11:6 13:23 13:26 14:17 15:5 19:29 20:27 22:5 31:11 31:28 31:33 33:9
Psalms 29: 18:23 25:11 31:10 32:2 32:5 36:2 38:4 38:18 39:11 40:12 49:5 51:2 51:5 51:9 59:4 65:3 69:27 78:38 79:8 85:2 89:32 90:8 103:3 103:10 106:43 107:17 109:14 130:3 130:8
Proverbs 2: 5:22 16:6
Isaiah 24: 1:4 5:18 6:7 13:11 14:21 22:14 26:21 27:9 30:13 33:24 40:2 43:24 50:1 53:5 53:6 53:11 57:17 59:2 59:3 59:12 64:6 64:7 64:9 65:7
Jeremiah 23: 2:22 3:13 5:25 11:10 13:22 14:7 14:10 14:20 16:10 16:17 16:18 18:23 25:12 30:14 30:15 31:30 31:34 32:18 33:8 36:3 36:31 50:20 51:6
Lamentations 5: 2:14 4:6 4:13 4:22 5:7
Ezekiel 38: 3:18 3:19 4:4 4:5 4:6 4:17 7:13 7:16 7:19 9:9 14:3 14:4 14:7 14:10 16:49 18:17 18:18 18:19 18:20 18:30 21:23 21:24 21:25 21:29 24:23 28:18 29:16 32:27 33:6 33:8 33:9 35:5 36:31 36:33 39:23 43:10 44:10 44:12
Daniel 3: 9:13 9:16 9:24
Hosea 11: 4:8 5:5 7:1 8:13 9:7 9:9 10:10 12:8 13:12 14:1 14:2
Amos 1: 3:2
Micah 2: 7:18 7:19
Zechariah 2: 3:4 3:9
Malachi 1: 2:6

Hebrew dictionary

עָוֺן avan · iniquity

: crime 1) perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity 1a) iniquity 1b) guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition) 1c) consequence of or punishment for 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.