Distortion
עִוְעִיםStrong’s H5773aveh (av-eh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Aveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “confusion”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.”
Meaning
- Distorting, perverting, warping
How it's translated
- confusion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עִוְעִים aveh · distortion
distorting, perverting, warping
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distortion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTORTION, noun
[Latin]
- The act of distorting or wresting; a twisting out of regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as the distortions of the face or body.
- The state of being twisted out of shape; deviation from natural shape or position; crookedness; grimace.
- A perversion of the true meaning of words.
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.