Lexical Definition

‎עָוַת‎ ʻâvath (aw-vath') to pervert ^H:V
a primitive root

bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

• to wrest

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

See Greek: ἀδικέω · ἀφανίζω · δανείζω · δάνειον · διαστρέφω · ἐκκλίνω · ἐξαιρέω · καταδικάζω · ταράσσω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎עָוַת‎] verb be bent, crooked (Late Hebrew id., Pi`el, Nithpa`el; Aramaic ‎עַוֵּית‎ Pa`el; compare , deceive PS³⁰⁰⁸); —

Pi`el Perfect 3 masculine singular suffix ‎עִוְּתָ֑נִי‎ Job 19:6, ‎עִוְּתוֺ‎ Eccl 7:13 3 plural suffix ‎עִוְּתוּנִי‎ Ps 119:78 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎יְעַוֵּת‎ Ps 146:9; Job 8:3, ‎יְעַוֶּתֿ‎ vJob 8:3 Infinitive ‎לְעַוֵּת‎ Amos 8:5; Lam 3:22 —

1. a. make crooked = falsify, scales Amos 8:5 pervert justice (‎מִשְׁפָּט‎, ‎צֶדֶק‎) Job 8:3 (twice in verse); Job 34:12 (all God subject); with accusative of person subvert (i.e. deprive of justice), ‎אָדָם בְּרִיבוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎לְע‎ Lam 3:36, compare Ps 119:78 so ‎עִוְּתָ֑נִי‎ Job 19:6 (‎׳‎‎י‎ subject).

2. bend, make crooked, ‎דֶּרֶךְ רְשָׁעִים‎ Ps 146:9 (‎׳‎‎י‎ subject); in general Eccl 7:13 (God subject; opposed to ‎תִּקֵּן‎). Pu`al Participle ‎מְעֻוָּת‎ Eccl 1:15 what is bent (opposed to ‎תְּקֹן‎). Hithpa`el Perfect 3 plural consecutive ‎וְהִתְעַוְּתוּ‎ Eccl 12:3 and the strong men bend themselves.

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