עָוָה
a.vah
to twist
Lexicon Entry
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Occurrences in Scripture
7 total occurrences across the text
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
Psalms 38:6I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
Isaiah 21:3Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
Isaiah 24:1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Lamentations 3:9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.