H5791 עָוַת
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 11 KJV occurrences
עָוַת
ʻâvath · aw-vath'
Definition
to wrest
KJV Renderings
bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 11)
- Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- Job 19:6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- 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 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
- Lamentations 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.