To pervert
עָוַתStrong’s H5791avat (a-vat)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avat is the Hebrew word usually translated “does he pervert”, “has wronged me” and “perverts”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?”
Meaning
- To be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert(Piel) · (Pual) thing bent (participle) · (Hithpael) to bend oneself
How it's translated
- does he pervert 2
- he has wronged me 1
- he perverts 1
- they have subverted me 1
- he makes crooked 1
- bent 1
- he has bent it 1
- and they will bend themselves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Psalms 2
- Lamentations 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Job 34:12Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
- Psalms 119:78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
- Psalms 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Hebrew dictionary
עָוַת avat · to pervert
1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert 1a)(Piel) 1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert 1a2) to bend, make crooked 1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle) 1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BENT, participle passive
Strained; incurvated; made crooked; inclined; subdued.
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.