H5791

עות

עות

iwath

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to wrest:—bow self, (make) crooked, falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

Outline

to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert

(Piel)

to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
to bend, make crooked

(Pual) thing bent (participle)
(Hithpael) to bend oneself

Usages

Job 8:3

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

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Job 19:6

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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Job 34:12

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

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Psalms 119:78

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

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Psalms 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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Ecclesiastes 1:15

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

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Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

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Ecclesiastes 12:3

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,

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Lamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

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Amos 8:5

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?

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