5791 - avath

Strong's Concordance

Original word: עָוַת
Transliteration: avath
Definition (short): pervert
Definition (full): to be bent or crooked

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to be bent or crooked
NASB Translation: bent (1), cheat (1), crooked (1), defraud (1), pervert (3), stoop (1), subvert (1), thwarts (1), wronged (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; to wrest -- bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

References

Strong's 5791: 11 Occurrences
KJV: Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
NASB: "Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
KJV: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
NASB: Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.
KJV: Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
NASB: "Surely, God will not act wickedly, And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
KJV: Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
NASB: May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts.