King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5791
Transliteration: avath
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-vath')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be bent or crooked
Meaning: to be bent or crooked
Word Summary
avath: to be bent or crooked
Original Word: עָוַתTransliteration: avath
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-vath')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be bent or crooked
Meaning: to be bent or crooked
Strong's Concordance
bow self, make crooked A primitive root; to wrest -- bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5791. avath
[עָוַת] verb be bent, crooked (Late Hebrew id., Pi`el, Nithpa`el; Aramaic עַוֵּית Pa`el; compare , deceive PS3008); —
Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular suffix עִוְּתָ֑נִי Job 19:6, עִוְּתוֺ Ecclesiastes 7:13; 3plural suffix עִוְּתוּנִי Psalm 119:78; Imperfect3masculine singular יְעַוֵּת 146:9; Job 8:3, יְעַוֶּתֿ 8:3; Infinitive לְעַוֵּת Amos 8:5; Lamentations 3:22; —
1. a. make crooked = falsify, scales Amos 8:5; pervert justice (צֶדֶק מִשְׁמָּט,) Job 8:3 (twice in verse); 34:12 (all God subject); with accusative of person subvert (i.e. deprive of justice), ׳לְע בְּרִיבוֺ אָדָם Lamentations 3:36, compare Psalm 119:78; so עִוְּתָ֑נִי Job 19:6 (׳י subject).
2 bend, make crooked, רְשָׁעִים דֶּרֶךְ Psalm 146:9 (׳י subject); in General Ecclesiastes 7:13 (God subject; opposed to תִּקֵּן).
Pu`al Participle מְעֻוָּת Ecclesiastes 1:15 what is bent (opposed to תְּקֹן).
Hithpa`el Perfect3plural consecutive וְהִתְעַוְּתוּ Ecclesiastes 12:3 and the strong men bend themselves.