Iniquity
עַלְוָהStrong’s H5932alvah (al-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Alvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “injustice”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.”
Meaning
- Injustice, unrighteousness, iniquity
How it's translated
- injustice 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hosea 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עַלְוָה alvah · iniquity
injustice, unrighteousness, iniquity 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 “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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.