עַוָּתָה
ʻavvâthâh · H5792 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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Action by which someone acts towards someone else in a morally or ethically unacceptable manner (wrong (committed by one human to another))
ExamplesLamentations 3:59 LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- סֶלֶף çeleph · H5558 · perverseness, crookedness, deviousness
- The target lexeme (‘perverseness’) and סֶלֶף (‘wrong’) both denote moral deviation or wrongness, and are plausible near-synonyms in that shared sense.
- עֶוֶל ʻevel · H5766 · wrong, injustice, iniquity
- Both words denote moral or ethical wrongdoing, overlapping in the sense of "wrong, iniquity."
- תַּהְפֻּכָה tahpukâh · H8419 · perversion, perverted
- Both words denote moral wrongness or perversity, overlapping in the sense of deviation from what is right, distinct Hebrew roots with overlapping meanings.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wrong002001003019
- עַוָּתָה denotes wrong or injustice itself, the abstract noun corresponding to the perverting sense of עָוַת (ʻâvath, H5791).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5792. avvathah [עַוָּתָה] noun feminine subversion, i.e. deprivation of justice; —…
[עַוָּתָה] noun feminine subversion, i.e. deprivation of justice; — suffix עַוָּתָתִי Lam 3:59 (opposed to מִשְׁמָּטִי).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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