Perversion
תֶּ֫בֶלStrong’s H8397tevel (te-vel)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tevel is the Hebrew word usually translated “confusion”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.”
Meaning
- Confusion (violation of nature or divine order)perversion (in sexual sin)
How it's translated
- confusion 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תֶּ֫בֶל tevel · perversion
1) confusion (violation of nature or divine order) 1a) perversion (in sexual sin)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perversion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERVER'SION, noun
[Latin perversus.]
The act of perverting; a turning from truth or propriety; a diverting from the true intent or object; change to something worse. We speak of the perversion of the laws, when they are misinterpreted or misapplied; a perversion of reason, when it is misemployed; a perversion of Scripture, when it is willfully misinterpreted or misapplied, etc.
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.