עָוַת ʻâvath

Meaning

to wrest

In the King James Version: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 8:3 Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
• Job 19:6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
• Job 34:12 Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
• Psalms 119:78 May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
• Psalms 146:9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
• Ecclesiastes 1:15 What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
• Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
• Ecclesiastes 12:3 on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
• Lamentations 3:36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
• Amos 8:5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.