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Strong's H5771 עָוֺן (avon)

Avon means “perversity” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H5771
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 213
Books 26

Strong's H5771 Quick Answer

Strong's H5771 עָווֹן עָווֹן (`avon) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `avon (aw-vone') (or oavown (2 Kings 7) n-m. 1. perversity, i.e. (moral) evil [from H5753] It has 213 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include iniquity, evil, king, punishment, and fault. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
`avon (aw-vone') (or oavown (2 Kings 7) n-m. 1. perversity, i.e. (moral) evil [from H5753]
Usage
213 linked usages
Books
26 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
iniquity, evil, king, punishment, and fault

Meaning and Definition

`avon (aw-vone') (or oavown (2 Kings 7) n-m. 1. perversity, i.e. (moral) evil [from H5753] KJV: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin. Root(s): H5753 See also: H7

Original Word
עָווֹן עָווֹן
Transliteration
`avon
Derivation
Root: עוה First root strongs: 5753
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5771. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

iniquity: crime

Usage: : crime 1) perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity 1a) iniquity 1b) guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition) 1c) consequence of or punishment for iniquity

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How Strong's H5771 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `avon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

iniquity Genesis 15:16 79× evil Ezra 9:13 king 2 Samuel 14:9 fault 2 Samuel 3:8 punishment Genesis 4:13 evils Psalms 40:12 king's 2 Kings 7:9 kings Ezra 9:7 punishments Job 19:29

How Strong's H5771 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 213 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5771 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5771 in the Old Testament

213 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 4:13 KJV

And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Genesis 15:16 KJV

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Genesis 19:15 KJV

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5771.

Genesis 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 15:16 Old Testament, KJV
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Genesis 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
Genesis 44:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Exodus 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 28:38 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Exodus 28:43 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Exodus 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Exodus 34:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Leviticus 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
Leviticus 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Leviticus 16:22 Old Testament, KJV
And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Leviticus 17:16 Old Testament, KJV
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 18:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus 19:8 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:17 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 20:19 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus 22:16 Old Testament, KJV
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus 26:39 Old Testament, KJV
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Leviticus 26:40 Old Testament, KJV
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Leviticus 26:41 Old Testament, KJV
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
Leviticus 26:43 Old Testament, KJV
The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Numbers 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
Numbers 5:31 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Numbers 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers 14:34 Old Testament, KJV
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Numbers 15:31 Old Testament, KJV
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Numbers 18:1 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Numbers 18:23 Old Testament, KJV
But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.
Numbers 30:15 Old Testament, KJV
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Deuteronomy 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Joshua 22:17 Old Testament, KJV
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua 22:20 Old Testament, KJV
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
1 Samuel 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
1 Samuel 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
1 Samuel 20:1 Old Testament, KJV
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
1 Samuel 20:8 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
1 Samuel 25:24 Old Testament, KJV
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
1 Samuel 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
2 Samuel 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
2 Samuel 14:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
2 Samuel 14:32 Old Testament, KJV
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel 19:19 Old Testament, KJV
And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
2 Samuel 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
2 Samuel 24:10 Old Testament, KJV
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
1 Kings 17:18 Old Testament, KJV
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
2 Kings 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
1 Chronicles 21:8 Old Testament, KJV
And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Ezra 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Ezra 9:7 Old Testament, KJV
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Ezra 9:13 Old Testament, KJV
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Nehemiah 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Nehemiah 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
Job 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 13:23 Old Testament, KJV
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:26 Old Testament, KJV
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 14:17 Old Testament, KJV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job 15:5 Old Testament, KJV
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 19:29 Old Testament, KJV
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 20:27 Old Testament, KJV
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Job 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Job 31:11 Old Testament, KJV
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Job 31:28 Old Testament, KJV
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Job 31:33 Old Testament, KJV
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job 33:9 Old Testament, KJV
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Psalms 18:23 Old Testament, KJV
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Psalms 25:11 Old Testament, KJV
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
Psalms 31:10 Old Testament, KJV
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 32:2 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms 32:5 Old Testament, KJV
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
Psalms 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Psalms 38:4 Old Testament, KJV
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:18 Old Testament, KJV
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 39:11 Old Testament, KJV
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 40:12 Old Testament, KJV
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Psalms 49:5 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Psalms 51:2 Old Testament, KJV
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms 51:5 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 51:9 Old Testament, KJV
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
Psalms 59:4 Old Testament, KJV
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
Psalms 65:3 Old Testament, KJV
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms 69:27 Old Testament, KJV
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Psalms 78:38 Old Testament, KJV
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 79:8 Old Testament, KJV
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Psalms 85:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 89:32 Old Testament, KJV
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 90:8 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 103:3 Old Testament, KJV
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Psalms 103:10 Old Testament, KJV
He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Psalms 106:43 Old Testament, KJV
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Psalms 107:17 Old Testament, KJV
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Psalms 109:14 Old Testament, KJV
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Psalms 130:3 Old Testament, KJV
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalms 130:8 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Proverbs 5:22 Old Testament, KJV
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs 16:6 Old Testament, KJV
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Isaiah 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Isaiah 5:18 Old Testament, KJV
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Isaiah 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isaiah 13:11 Old Testament, KJV
And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 14:21 Old Testament, KJV
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Isaiah 22:14 Old Testament, KJV
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah 26:21 Old Testament, KJV
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Isaiah 27:9 Old Testament, KJV
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Isaiah 30:13 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah 33:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 40:2 Old Testament, KJV
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 43:24 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah 50:1 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
Isaiah 53:5 Old Testament, KJV
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:6 Old Testament, KJV
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:11 Old Testament, KJV
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5771, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 5 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 16 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 9 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 6 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Job 15 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 29 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 24 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 23 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 38 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 10 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H5771 FAQ

What does avon (עָוֺן) mean?

Avon (Strong's H5771) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "perversity". `avon (aw-vone') (or oavown (2 Kings 7) n-m. 1. perversity, i.e. (moral) evil [from H5753]

How many times is avon (עָוֺן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 213 linked usages for Strong's H5771 across 26 books.

Where can I study avon (עָוֺן) in context?

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What English words translate avon (עָוֺן)?

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