עָוָהʻâvâh

עָוָה: bend, twist

Pronunciation: aw-vaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5753

Meanings

Niph`al: be bent, bowed down, twisted (Isaiah 21:3; Psalms 38:7; Proverbs 12:8)

Pi`el: twisted, distort (Lamentations 3:9; Isaiah 24:1)

Hiph`il: perverted (Job 33:27; Jeremiah 3:21)

עָוָה: commit iniquity, do wrong

Qal: she hath done wrong, we have committed iniquity (Esther 1:16; Daniel 9:5)

Hiph`il: commit inquity (2 Samuel 19:20; 2 Samuel 24:17; 1 Kings 8:47)

עוה: iniquity (Daniel 4:24)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 20:30 Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. “You stupid son of a whore!” he swore at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want him to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?
  • 2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he sins, I will correct and discipline him with the rod, like any father would do.
  • 2 Samuel 19:19 “My lord the king, please forgive me,” he pleaded. “Forget the terrible thing your servant did when you left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.
  • 2 Samuel 24:17 When David saw the angel, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”
  • 1 Kings 8:47 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’
  • 2 Chronicles 6:37 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).