- Original: עות
- Transliteration: `avath
- Phonetic: aw-vath'
- Definition:
1. to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert
a. (Piel)
1. to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
2. to bend, make crooked
b. (Pual) thing bent (participle)
c. (Hithpael) to bend oneself
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 1591
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to wrest: - bow self (make) crooked falsifying overthrow deal perversely pervert subvert turn upside down.
Total KJV Occurrences: 11
• crooked, 2
Ecclesiastes 1:15;
Ecclesiastes 7:13
• down, 1
Psalm 146:9
• falsifying, 1
Amos 8:5
• overthrown, 1
Job 19:6
• perversely, 1
Psalm 119:78
• pervert, 3
Job 8:3(2);
Job 34:12
• subvert, 1
Lamentations 3:36
• themselves, 1
Ecclesiastes 12:3