Strong's #5791: `avath (pronounced aw-vath')

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âvath

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

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert

1a2) to bend, make crooked

1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle)

1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Job 8:3: "Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?"
Job 8:3: "judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?"
Job 19:6: "now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net."
Job 34:12: "do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment."
Psalms 119:78: "Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts."
Psalms 146:9: "and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down."
Ecclesiastes 1:15: " That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered."
Ecclesiastes 7:13: "make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because"
Lamentations 3:36: " To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
Amos 8:5: "making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?"