Limitless Word
עָוַתʻâvath/aw-vath'/
HebrewH579111 occurrences (KJV)

to wrest

KJV renders it: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

Where it appears(showing the first 10 of 11)

  • Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
  • Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
  • Job 34:12Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
  • Ps 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
  • Ps 146:9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • Eccl 1:15That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
  • Eccl 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
  • Eccl 12:3in 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,
  • Lam 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
  • Amos 8:5Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.