עָוֺן ʻâvôn

Meaning

perversity, i.e. (moral) evil

In the King James Version: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.

Derivation: or עָווֹן; (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 (H7 (אֲבַד))), from H5753 (עָוָה);

Where it is used

• Job 10:6 that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
• Job 10:14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
• Job 11:6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
• Job 13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
• Job 13:26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
• Job 14:17 My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
• Job 15:5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
• Job 19:29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
• Job 20:27 The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.
• Job 22:5 Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
• Job 31:11 For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
• Job 31:28 this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.
• Job 31:33 if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
• Job 33:9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
• Psalms 18:23 And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
• Psalms 25:11 For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
• Psalms 31:10 For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
• Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Psalms 32:5 Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
• Psalms 36:2 For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
• Psalms 38:4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
• Psalms 38:18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
• Psalms 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Psalms 40:12 For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Psalms 49:5 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
• Psalms 51:2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
• Psalms 51:5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Psalms 51:9 Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
• Psalms 59:4 For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.
• Psalms 65:3 When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.
• Psalms 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
• Psalms 78:38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
• Psalms 79:8 Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
• Psalms 85:2 You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah
• Psalms 89:32 I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
• Psalms 90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
• Psalms 103:3 He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
• Psalms 103:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
• Psalms 106:43 Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
• Psalms 107:17 Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
• Psalms 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
• Psalms 130:3 If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
• Psalms 130:8 And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.
• Proverbs 5:22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
• Proverbs 16:6 By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
• Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Isaiah 5:18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
• Isaiah 6:7 And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”
• Isaiah 13:11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
• Isaiah 14:21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
• Isaiah 22:14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• Isaiah 26:21 For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
• Isaiah 27:9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
• Isaiah 30:13 this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
• Isaiah 33:24 And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
• Isaiah 40:2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
• Isaiah 43:24 You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
• Isaiah 50:1 This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
• Isaiah 53:5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
• Isaiah 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.