Avath means “wrest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5791 עָוַת (`avath) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `avath (aw-vath') v. 1. to wrest [a primitive root] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include pervert, perversely, crooked, make, and bow. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`avath (aw-vath') v. 1. to wrest [a primitive root] KJV: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.
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to pervert
Usage: 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
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `avath, 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.
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.
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.
10 indexed usages in Old Testament.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5791.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5791, grouped by book.
Avath (Strong's H5791) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "wrest". `avath (aw-vath') v. 1. to wrest [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's H5791 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5791 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pervert, perversely, crooked, make, bow, and subvert. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.