Quick Definition
to pervert
Strong's Definition
to wrest
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
TWOT Reference: 1591
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָוַת (a.vat) — to pervert. 1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert 1a)(Piel) 1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert 1a2) to bend, make crooked 1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle) 1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עַוָּתָה
Shape | verb pi
to make crooked = causative action by which someone causes something to be bent or twisted out of shape or position
Bad | verb pi
to falsify = causative action by which humans cause an object that used to work correctly to function incorrectly
Unsafe | verb pi
to make tortuous = causative action by which someone turns conditions that ought to be successful and prosperous into suffering
Wrong | verb pi
to wrong = action by which someone acts towards someone else in a morally or ethically unacceptable manner
verb
Confident | verb qal
Collocation: עות דָּבָר
to sustain with words, to give a word of comfort meaning unsure; possibly: = causative action by which someone instills confidence in someone else by speaking comforting words
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עָוַת] vb. be bent, crooked Pi.
make crooked = falsify scales; pervert justice
bend, make crooked
Pu. what is bent
Hithp. and the strong men bend themselves.
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