Lexicon entry · Hebrew
H5753Aעָוָהa.vah
to twistPart of speech: Hebrew Verb
Show inJPS Tanakh 1917
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Other meanings of H5753
- H5753Bעָוָהa.vahto pervert
H:VOccurrences: 10
7 occurrences in 7 verses
With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.
He cometh before men, and saith: 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not.'
הֶעֱוֵ֗יתִי he.'e.Vei.ti “I have perverted”
I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day.
נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי na.'a.Vei.ti “I am bent down”
A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.
וְנַעֲוֵה־ (נַעֲוֵה) na.'a.veh- “a [person] perverted of”
Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.
נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי na.'a.Vei.ti “I am bent over”
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
וְעִוָּ֣ה (עִוָּ֣ה) 'i.Vah “he will twist”
Hark! upon the high hills is heard the suppliant weeping of the children of Israel; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.
הֶעֱוּוּ֙ he.'e.Vu “they have perverted”
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
עִוָּֽה׃ 'i.Vah “he has made crooked”