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Lexicon :: Strong's H5766 - ʿevel

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עֶוֶל
Transliteration
ʿevel
Pronunciation
eh'-vel
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1580a,1580b

Strong’s Definitions

עֶוֶל ʻevel, eh'-vel; or עָוֶל ʻâvel; and (feminine) עַוְלָה ʻavlâh; or עוֹלָה ʻôwlâh; or עֹלָה ʻôlâh; from H5765; (moral) evil:—iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H5766 in the following manner: iniquity (36x), wickedness (7x), unrighteousness (3x), unjust (2x), perverseness (1x), unjustly (1x), unrighteously (1x), wicked (1x), wickedly (1x), variant (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H5766 in the following manner: iniquity (36x), wickedness (7x), unrighteousness (3x), unjust (2x), perverseness (1x), unjustly (1x), unrighteously (1x), wicked (1x), wickedly (1x), variant (2x).
  1. injustice, unrighteousness, wrong

    1. violent deeds of injustice

    2. injustice (of speech)

    3. injustice (generally)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶוֶל ʻevel, eh'-vel; or עָוֶל ʻâvel; and (feminine) עַוְלָה ʻavlâh; or עוֹלָה ʻôwlâh; or עֹלָה ʻôlâh; from H5765; (moral) evil:—iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
STRONGS H5766: Abbreviations
עָ֫וֶל noun masculine injustice, unrighteousness (opposed to צְדָקָה); — ע׳ Leviticus 19:15 +; construct עֶ֫וֶל Ezekiel 28:18 (van d. H. עָוֶל, but see Baer Ginsb); suffix עַוְלוֺ Ezekiel 18:26; Ezekiel 33:13; — עשׂה עול Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 19:35 (H) Deuteronomy 25:16; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:24, Ezekiel 18:26 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 33:13 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 33:15, Ezekiel 33:18; פעל ע׳ Job 34:32; הִתְעִיבוּ ע׳ Psalm 53:2 [Psalm 53:1] (|| עֲלִילָה Psalm 14:2); שׁפט ע׳ Psalm 82:2; אישׁ ע׳ Proverbs 29:27; בְּכַפַּי ׳ע Psalm 7:4 [Psalm 7:3]; בְּ מצא ע׳ Jeremiah 2:5, read probably also Ezekiel 28:15 (for MT עולתה); ישׁיב ידוֺ מע׳ Ezekiel 18:8; בְּעֶוֶל רְכֻלָּֽתְךָ Ezekiel 28:18; of God, אין עול (|| אֱמוּנָה) Deuteronomy 32:4; חָלִלָה מע׳ Job 34:10.

עַוְלָה noun feminineJob 11:14 (? masculine Malachi 2:6ii. 2, 453, §345 d Ezekiel 28:15 [עולתה; but ע׳ only here Ezekiel, error for עול] questioned by SS, see AlbrechtZAW xvi (1896), 117) injustice, unrighteousness, wrong; — ע׳ Psalm 37:1 + 24 times, + 1. עוֺלָה Isaiah 61:8 (read probably עַוְלָה); עַוְלָ֫תָה Psalm 125:3; Psalm 92:16 [Psalm 92:15] (Qr) + 2 times; עֹלָ֫תָה Psalm 125:16 (Kt) Job 5:16; plural עוֺלוֺת Psalm 58:3 [Psalm 58:2]; Psalm 64:7 [Psalm 64:6]; —
1. violent deeds of injustice, בְּנֵי עַוְלָה 2 Samuel 3:34; 2 Samuel 7:10 = 1 Chronicles 17:9; בֶּןעֿ׳ Psalm 89:23 [Psalm 89:22], compare בְּנֵי עַלְוָה Hosea 10:9 (read עַוְלָה Now); אישׁ מרמה וע׳ Psalm 43:1; בע׳ Isaiah 61:8; || דַּם Micah 3:10; Habakkuk 2:11; עשׂה ע׳ Psalm 37:1; Zephaniah 3:5, Zephaniah 3:13; פעל ע׳ Psalm 58:3 [Psalm 58:2]; Psalm 119:3; Job 36:23; שׁלח ידים בע׳ Psalm 125:3.
2., injustice of speech: דבּר ע׳ Job 13:7; Job 27:4; תהגה לשׁונכם ע׳ Isaiah 59:3; בלשׁוני ע׳ Job 6:30; לא נמצא בשׂפה ע׳ Malachi 2:6; קפצה פיה ע׳ Psalm 107:42; Job 5:16.
3. injustice, in general, Psalm 64:7 [Psalm 64:6]; Job 6:29; Job 11:14; Job 15:16; Job 22:23; Job 24:20, + Job 36:33 (for MT עוֺלֶה according to Greek Version of the LXX Di Bu Du and others, Proverbs 22:8; Hosea 10:13; of God, בוֺ לא ע׳ Psalm 92:16 [Psalm 92:15]; ע׳ אֵין עִם י׳ 2 Chronicles 19:7.

עֹלָ֫תָה Job 5:16 etc., see עַוְלָה below עָוַל.

See related Strong's entry H5932.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

19:15; 19:15; 19:35

Deuteronomy

25:16; 32:4

2 Samuel

3:34; 7:10

1 Chronicles

17:9

2 Chronicles

19:7

Job

5:16; 5:16; 5:16; 6:29; 6:30; 11:14; 11:14; 13:7; 15:16; 22:23; 24:20; 27:4; 34:10; 34:32; 36:23; 36:33

Psalms

7:3; 14:2; 37:1; 37:1; 43:1; 53:1; 58:2; 58:2; 64:6; 64:6; 82:2; 89:22; 92:15; 92:15; 107:42; 119:3; 125:3; 125:3

Proverbs

22:8; 29:27

Isaiah

59:3; 61:8; 61:8

Jeremiah

2:5

Ezekiel

3:20; 18:8; 18:24; 18:26; 18:26; 28:15; 28:15; 28:18; 28:18; 33:13; 33:13; 33:15; 33:18

Hosea

10:9; 10:13

Micah

3:10

Habakkuk

2:11

Zephaniah

3:5; 3:13

Malachi

2:6; 2:6

H5766

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5766 matches the Hebrew עֶוֶל (ʿevel),
which occurs 54 times in 51 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Lev 19:15–Zep 3:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:15 -

‘You shall do no injustice H5766 in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 -

‘You shall do no wrong H5766 in judgment, in measurement of weight, or in volume.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - “For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly H5766, is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 -

“The Rock! His work is [fn]perfect,

For all His ways are [fn]just;

A God of faithfulness and without injustice H5766,

Righteous and upright is He.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:34 -

“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;

As one falls before the [fn]unrighteous H5766, you have fallen.”

And all the people continued to weep over him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:10 - “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the [fn]unrighteous H5766 will not afflict them any more as formerly,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:9 - “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again; and the [fn]unrighteous H5766 will not waste them anymore as formerly,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:7 - “So now then let the dread of Yahweh be upon you; [fn]be careful what you do, because [fn]with Yahweh our God there is no unrighteousness H5766 or partiality or the taking of a bribe.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 -

“So the poor has hope,

And unrighteousness H5766 must shut its mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:29 -

“Now turn from this, let there be no unrighteousness H5766;

Even turn from this, my righteousness is yet in it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:30 -

“Is there unrighteousness H5766 on my tongue?

Cannot my palate discern [fn]destruction?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 -

If wickedness is in your hand, put it far away,

And do not let unrighteousness H5766 dwell in your tents;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:7 -

“Will you speak what H5766 is H5766 unrighteous H5766 for God,

And speak what is deceitful for Him?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 -

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

Man, who drinks [fn]unrighteousness H5766 like water!

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:23 -

“If you return to [fn]the Almighty, you will be [fn]restored;

If you remove unrighteousness H5766 far from your tent,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 -

“A [fn]mother will forget him;

The worm feasts sweetly till he is no longer remembered.

And unrighteousness H5766 will be broken like a tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 -

My lips certainly will not speak unrighteousness H5766,

Nor will my tongue utter deceit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:10 -

“Therefore, listen to me, you men with a heart of wisdom.

Far be it from God to do injustice,

And from the Almighty to do wrong H5766.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 -

Instruct me what I do not behold;

If I have done injustice H5766,

I will not do it again’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:23 -

“Who has appointed Him His way,

And who has said, ‘You have worked out [fn]unrighteousness H5766’?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:3 -

O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,

If there is injustice H5766 in my hands,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:1 -

Of David.

Aleph

Do not fret because of evildoers,

Be not envious toward doers of unrighteousness H5766.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:1 -

Give justice to me, O God, and plead my case against an unholy nation;

[fn]Oh protect me from the deceitful and unrighteous H5766 man!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 -

For the choir director. According to [fn]Mahalath. A [fn]Maskil of David.

The wicked fool says in his heart, “There is no God,”

They act corruptly, and commit abominable injustice H5766;

There is no one who does good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:2 -

No, in heart you work unrighteousness H5766;

On earth you [fn]prepare a path for the violence of your hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:6 -

They searched out unrighteousness H5766, saying,

“We have completed a diligent search”;

For the [fn]inward thought of a man and his heart are [fn]deep.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:2 -

How long will you judge unrighteously H5766

And show partiality to the wicked? [fn]Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 -

“The enemy will not [fn]deceive him,

Nor the [fn]son of unrighteousness H5766 afflict him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:15 -

To [fn]declare that Yahweh is upright;

He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness H5766 in Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:42 -

The upright see it and are glad;

But all unrighteousness H5766 shuts its mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:3 -

They also do not work unrighteousness H5766;

They walk in His ways.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:3 -

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the [fn]land of the righteous,

So that the righteous would not send forth their hands in unrighteousness H5766.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 -

He who sows unrighteousness H5766 will reap iniquity,

And the rod of his fury will end.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:27 -

An unjust H5766 man is an abomination to the righteous,

And he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:3 -

For your hands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with iniquity;

Your lips have spoken a lie;

Your tongue mutters unrighteousness H5766.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus says Yahweh,

“What injustice H5766 did your fathers find in Me,

That they went far from Me

And walked after vanity and became vain?

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - “Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and does evil H5766, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he turns his hand from injustice H5766 and does true justice between man and man,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 -

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice H5766, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his unfaithfulness which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:26 - “When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice H5766, and dies because of it, for his injustice H5766 which he has done he will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:15 -

“You were blameless in your ways

From the day you were created

Until unrighteousness H5766 was found in you.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 -

“By the abundance of your iniquities,

In the unrighteousness H5766 of your trade

You profaned your sanctuaries.

Therefore I have brought out fire from the midst of you;

It has consumed you,

And I have turned you to ashes on the earth

In the eyes of all who see you.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:13 - “When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he does iniquity H5766, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity H5766 of his which he has done he will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes of life without committing iniquity H5766, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:18 - “When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity H5766, then he shall die in [fn]it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:13 -

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice H5766;

You have eaten the fruit of deception.

Because you have trusted in your way, in your abundant warriors,

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:10 -

Who build Zion with bloodshed

And Jerusalem with violent H5766 injustice H5766.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:12 -

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed

And founds a town with injustice H5766!

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 -

Yahweh is righteous in her midst;

He will do no injustice H5766.

Every morning He brings His justice to light;

[fn]He does not fail.

But the unjust knows no shame.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:13 -

“The remnant of Israel will do no injustice H5766

And not speak falsehood,

Nor will a deceitful tongue

Be found in their mouths;

For they will feed and lie down

With no one to make them tremble.”


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