Strong's #5753: `avah (pronounced aw-vaw')
a primitive root; to crook, literally or figuratively (as follows):--do amiss, bow down, make crooked, commit iniquity, pervert, (do) perverse(-ly), trouble, X turn, do wickedly, do wrong.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âvâh
1) to bend, twist, distort
1a) (Niphal) to be bent, be bowed down, be twisted, be perverted
1b) (Piel) to twist, distort
1c) (Hiphil) to do perversely
2) to commit iniquity, do wrong, pervert
2a) (Qal) to do wrong, commit iniquity
2b) (Hiphil) to commit iniquity
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
1 Samuel 20:30: "against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that"
2 Samuel 7:14: "shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes"
2 Samuel 19:19: "that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king"
2 Samuel 24:17: "I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done?"
1 Kings 8:47: "and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;"
2 Chronicles 6:37: "and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;"
Esther 1:16: "Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but"
Job 33:27: "men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;"
Psalms 38:6: " I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day"
Psalms 106:6: "We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly."
Proverbs 12:8: "shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised."
Isaiah 21:3: "pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed"
Isaiah 24:1: "the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants"
Jeremiah 3:21: "of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten"
Jeremiah 9:5: "to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity."
Lamentations 3:9: "He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked."
Daniel 9:5: "We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:"
