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Lexicon :: Strong's H5771 - ʿāôn

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עָוֹן
Transliteration
ʿāôn
Pronunciation
aw-vone'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1577a

Strong’s Definitions

עָוֺן ʻâvôn, aw-vone'; or עָווֹן ʻâvôwn; (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 [7]), from H5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:—fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 230x

The KJV translates Strong's H5771 in the following manner: iniquity (220x), punishment (5x), fault (2x), Iniquities (with H1697) (1x), mischief (1x), sin (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 230x
The KJV translates Strong's H5771 in the following manner: iniquity (220x), punishment (5x), fault (2x), Iniquities (with H1697) (1x), mischief (1x), sin (1x).
  1. perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity

    1. iniquity

    2. guilt of iniquity, guilt (as great), guilt (of condition)

    3. consequence of or punishment for iniquity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָוֺן ʻâvôn, aw-vone'; or עָווֹן ʻâvôwn; (2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:5 [7]), from H5753; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:—fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
STRONGS H5771: Abbreviations
עָוֺן noun masculineIsaiah 22:14 iniquity, guilt, or punishment of iniquity; — ע׳ absolute Exodus 21:43 [Exodus 28:43] +; עָווֺן 2 Kings 7:9; Psalm 51:7 [Psalm 51:5]; construct עֲוֺן Genesis 15:16 +; עֲווֺן 1 Chronicles 21:8; suffix עֲוֺנִי Genesis 4:13 + (2 Samuel 16:12 read בְּעָנְיִי), עֲוֺנְךָ Hosea 9:7 +; עֲוֺנֵ֑כִי Psalm 103:3; עֲוֺ֔נָהֿ Numbers 15:31 (Ges§ 91e), etc.; plural עֲוֺנוֺת absolute Psalm 130:3 +, construct Job 13:26 +; עַוֺנֹת absolute Psalm 65:4 [Psalm 65:3], construct Leviticus 16:21 +; suffix עֲוֺנֹתֶיךָ Isaiah 43:24, עֲוֺנֹתֵיכֶם Numbers 14:34 +, etc.; also עֲוֺנֶיךָ Ezekiel 28:18; עֲוֺנֵינוּ Isaiah 64:6 +, etc. (SS doubt all these); —
a. נְעוּרַי ע׳ Job 13:26 iniquities of my youth; חֶרֶב ע׳ Job 19:29 iniquities calling for the sword; מְּלִילִי(םׅ ע׳ Job 31:11,28 iniquity for (to be punished by) judges; שְׁתֵּי עֲוֺנֹתָם Hosea 10:10 (so read Vrss Hi and others); כשׁל בע׳ stumble by iniquity Hosea 5:5; Hosea 14:2; compare מִכְשׁוֺל ע׳ Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 14:3,4,7; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 44:12; לכלעֿון Deuteronomy 19:15; אשׁתמרה מע׳ 2 Samuel 22:24 = Psalm 18:24. עָוֺן אֲשֶׁרחֵֿטְא Hosea 12:9.
b. iniquity as recognized, ידע ע׳ 1 Samuel 3:13; Isaiah 59:12; Jeremiah 3:13; Jeremiah 14:20; confessed, התודה ע׳ Leviticus 16:21; Leviticus 26:40 (twice in verse) (P), Nehemiah 9:2; הגיד ע׳ Psalm 38:19; לא כסה ע׳ Psalm 32:5; brought to remembrance, הזכיר ע׳ Numbers 5:15 (P) 1 Kings 17:18; Ezekiel 21:28; Ezekiel 21:29; Ezekiel 29:16; causing shame, יִכָּֽלְמוּ מע׳ Ezekiel 43:10; turned from, שׁוּב מע׳ Daniel 9:13, compare השׁיב מע׳ Malachi 2:6.
c.
(1) phrases of punishment: על פקד ע׳ Exodus 20:5 = Deuteronomy 5:9; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18 (J), Leviticus 18:25 (H) 2 Samuel 3:8; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 26:21; Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 36:31; Amos 3:2; without על, Lamentations 4:22, ב פקד ע׳ Psalm 89:33; Job 11:6 see [II. נשׁא]; יסּר על ע׳ Psalm 39:12 chastise for iniquity; לנגדךָ שַׁתָּ֯ ע׳ Psalm 90:8 set our iniquities before thee; גמל כע׳ Psalm 103:10; שׁמר ע׳ Psalm 130:3; שׁלּם ע׳ Isaiah 65:7 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 16:18; Jeremiah 32:18; מַטְבֵּחַ בע׳ Isaiah 14:21;
(2) of forgiveness or removal: העביר ע 2 Samuel 24:10 = 1 Chronicles 21:8; Job 7:21; Zechariah 3:4; משׁתי ע׳ Zechariah 3:9 סלח לע׳ Exodus 34:9; Numbers 14:19 (J), Psalm 25:11; Psalm 103:3; Jeremiah 31:34; Jeremiah 33:8; Jeremiah 36:3; נשׂא ע׳ Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18 (J), Psalm 32:5; Psalm 85:3; Isaiah 33:24; Hosea 14:3; Micah 7:18; סר ע׳ Isaiah 6:7; יכבושׁ ע׳ Micah 7:19;
(3) of covering over, כסה על ע׳ Nehemiah 3:37; כמּר ע׳ Psalm 78:38; Proverbs 16:6; Isaiah 22:14; Isaiah 27:9; Daniel 9:24; כמּר על ע׳ Jeremiah 18:23; יתכמּר ע׳ 1 Samuel 3:14;
(4) of cleansing from: כבּס מע׳ Psalm 51:4; מחה ע׳ Psalm 51:11; טהר מע׳ Jeremiah 33:8; Ezekiel 36:33;
(5) of imputing, reckoning to one: ל חשׁב ע׳ 2 Samuel 19:20; Psalm 32:2; (לׅ זכר ע׳ Psalm 79:8; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 14:10; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 9:9; יִזָּכֵר ע׳ Psalm 109:14; בקשׁ (ל)ע׳ Job 10:6; Jeremiah 50:20;
(6) פדה מע׳ Psalm 130:8 ransom from iniquity.
2. Guilt of iniquity (not always easy to distinguished from 1; SS give more, Buhl fewer, sub 2); — || תועבות Ezekiel 36:31; || דם Isaiah 59:3; || חמס Ezekiel 9:9; פעור ע׳ Joshua 22:17 (P); סדם ע׳ Ezekiel 16:49; בצעוֺ ע׳ Isaiah 57:17; שְׁנֵי עונם Ezekiel 4:4; נִכְתָּם עֲוֺנֵךְ לְפָנַי Jeremiah 2:22 the guilt of thine iniquity is marked before me; מצא ע׳ Genesis 44:16 (E) Psalm 36:3.
a. בְ ע׳ : guilt of iniquity upon one Numbers 15:31 (P) 1 Samuel 20:8; 2 Samuel 14:32; לִי לא ע׳ Job 33:9 (|| זַךְ); בליעֿון Psalm 59:5 without my guilt.
b. guilt, as great, increased: רֹב עָוֺן Jeremiah 13:22; Jeremiah 30:14,15; Ezekiel 28:18; Hosea 9:7; לֹאשָֿׁלֵם ע׳ Genesis 15:16 (J); עָֽבְרוּ ראֹשִׁי ע׳ Psalm 38:5; עֲקֵבַי יְסוּבֵּנִי ע׳ Psalm 49:6; הִשִּׂיגוּנִי ע׳ Psalm 40:13; גברו מני ע׳ Psalm 65:4; עַם כֶּבֶד ע׳ Isaiah 1:4; נלקח בע׳ Ezekiel 33:6.
c. as a condition, בע׳ : with חוללתי was I brought forth Psalm 51:7; with גָּוַע expire Joshua 22:20 (P); with מות die Jeremiah 31:30; Ezekiel 3:18,19; Ezekiel 18:17,18; Ezekiel 33:8,9.
3. Consequence of, or punishment for, iniquity (SS include most of these under 2, and do not recognize 3; Buhl thinks this meaning rare, giving only Genesis 4:13; Isaiah 5:18); — אִם יִקְּ֯רֵךְ ע׳ בדבר הזה 1 Samuel 28:10 no punishment shall happen unto thee for, etc.; נשׂא ע׳ bear the punishment for iniquity of others Exodus 28:38; Leviticus 10:17 (take away ע׳ Di Nowii. 233 n.) Leviticus 16:22; Numbers 30:16 (P), Ezekiel 4:4,5,6; בע׳ Ezekiel 18:19,20 (twice in verse); one's own, Exodus 28:43; Leviticus 5:1,17; Leviticus 7:18; Leviticus 17:16; Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 20:17,19; Leviticus 22:16; Numbers 5:31; Numbers 14:34; Numbers 18:1 (twice in verse); Numbers 18:23 (P), Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 44:10,12; מנשׂוא גדול ע׳ Genesis 4:13 (J) my punishment is greater than I can bear; נִרְצָה עֲוֺנָהּ Isaiah 40:2 her punishment is accepted, compare רצה ע׳ Leviticus 26:41,43 (H); ומצאנוּ ע׳ 2 Kings 7:9 punishment will overtake us; על ע׳ תנה ע׳ Psalm 69:28 add punishment to their punishment; הוא יסבל ע׳ Isaiah 53:11 the consequences of their iniquities he shall bear, compare סָבָ֑לְנוּ ע׳ Lamentations 5:7; הפגיע בו ע׳ Isaiah 53:6; נִקָּה מע׳ freed from punishment Numbers 5:31 (P) Job 10:14; בי אני העון 1 Samuel 25:24 on me the punishment; עלי הע׳ 2 Samuel 14:9; בע׳ with various verbs: Genesis 19:15 (J) Leviticus 26:39 (twice in verse) (H) Psalm 31:11; Psalm 106:43; Jeremiah 51:6; Ezekiel 4:17; Ezekiel 7:16; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 39:23; קץ עת ע׳ Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 21:34; Ezekiel 35:5; see also: Proverbs 5:22 (|| חַבְלֵי חטאת), Isaiah 30:13; Isaiah 64:5; Isaiah 64:6; Lamentations 4:22; Ezekiel 4:4; Ezekiel 14:10 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 32:27.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5758.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:13; 4:13; 4:13; 15:16; 15:16; 19:15; 44:16

Exodus

20:5; 28:38; 28:43; 28:43; 34:7; 34:7; 34:9

Leviticus

5:1; 5:17; 7:18; 10:17; 16:21; 16:21; 16:22; 17:16; 18:25; 19:8; 20:17; 20:19; 22:16; 26:39; 26:40; 26:41; 26:43

Numbers

5:15; 5:31; 5:31; 14:18; 14:18; 14:19; 14:34; 14:34; 15:31; 15:31; 18:1; 18:23; 30:16

Deuteronomy

5:9; 19:15

Joshua

22:17; 22:20

1 Samuel

3:13; 3:14; 20:1; 20:8; 25:24; 28:10

2 Samuel

3:8; 14:9; 14:32; 16:12; 19:20; 22:24; 24:10

1 Kings

17:18

2 Kings

7:9; 7:9

1 Chronicles

21:8; 21:8

Ezra

9:6; 9:7; 9:13

Nehemiah

9:2

Job

7:21; 10:6; 10:14; 11:6; 13:23; 13:26; 13:26; 14:17; 15:5; 19:29; 20:27; 22:5; 31:11; 31:28; 31:33; 33:9

Psalms

18:24; 25:11; 31:11; 32:2; 32:5; 32:5; 36:3; 38:5; 38:19; 39:12; 40:13; 49:6; 51:4; 51:5; 51:7; 51:11; 59:5; 65:3; 65:4; 69:28; 78:38; 79:8; 85:3; 89:33; 90:8; 103:3; 103:3; 103:10; 106:43; 107:17; 109:14; 130:3; 130:3; 130:8

Proverbs

5:22; 16:6

Isaiah

1:4; 5:18; 5:18; 6:7; 13:11; 14:21; 22:14; 22:14; 26:21; 27:9; 30:13; 33:24; 40:2; 43:24; 43:24; 50:1; 53:5; 53:6; 53:11; 57:17; 59:2; 59:3; 59:12; 64:5; 64:6; 64:6; 64:8; 65:7

Jeremiah

2:22; 3:13; 5:25; 11:10; 13:22; 14:7; 14:10; 14:20; 16:10; 16:17; 16:18; 18:23; 25:12; 30:14; 30:15; 31:30; 31:34; 32:18; 33:8; 33:8; 36:3; 36:31; 50:20; 51:6

Lamentations

2:14; 4:6; 4:13; 4:22; 4:22; 5:7

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:19; 4:4; 4:4; 4:4; 4:5; 4:6; 4:17; 7:13; 7:16; 7:19; 9:9; 14:3; 14:4; 14:7; 14:10; 14:10; 16:49; 18:17; 18:18; 18:19; 18:20; 18:30; 21:28; 21:29; 21:30; 24:23; 28:18; 28:18; 29:16; 32:27; 33:6; 33:8; 33:9; 35:5; 36:31; 36:33; 39:23; 43:10; 44:10; 44:12; 44:12

Daniel

9:13; 9:16; 9:24

Hosea

4:8; 5:5; 7:1; 8:13; 9:7; 9:7; 9:9; 10:10; 12:9; 13:12; 14:2; 14:3

Amos

3:2

Micah

7:18; 7:19

Zechariah

3:4; 3:9

Malachi

2:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5771 matches the Hebrew עָוֹן (ʿāôn),
which occurs 232 times in 215 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 4:13–2Sa 19:19)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - “What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants’ guilt. We are now my lord’s slaves—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:38 - It will be on Aaron’s forehead, and he will bear the guilt involved in the sacred gifts the Israelites consecrate, whatever their gifts may be. It will be on Aaron’s forehead continually so that they will be acceptable to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:43 - Aaron and his sons must wear them whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and die. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:9 - “Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - “ ‘If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:17 - “If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though they do not know it, they are guilty and will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:18 - If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:17 - “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:22 - The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:16 - But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be held responsible.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:25 - Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:8 - Whoever eats it will be held responsible because they have desecrated what is holy to the LORD; they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - “ ‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:16 - by allowing them to eat the sacred offerings and so bring upon them guilt requiring payment. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’ sins they will waste away.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - “ ‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:41 - which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:43 - For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:15 - then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[fn] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:31 - The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:19 - In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:31 - Because they have despised the LORD’s word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - The LORD said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your family are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses connected with the priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:23 - It is the Levites who are to do the work at the tent of meeting and bear the responsibility for any offenses they commit against it. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. They will receive no inheritance among the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:15 - If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:17 - Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the LORD!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:20 - When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,[fn] did not wrath come on the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:13 - For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,[fn] and he failed to restrain them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:14 - Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, ‘The guilt of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’ ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:9 - And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:8 - As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the LORD. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10 - Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As surely as the LORD lives, you will not be punished for this.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Abner was very angry because of what Ish-Bosheth said. So he answered, “Am I a dog’s head—on Judah’s side? This very day I am loyal to the house of your father Saul and to his family and friends. I haven’t handed you over to David. Yet now you accuse me of an offense involving this woman!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “Let my lord the king pardon me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent word to you and said, ‘Come here so I can send you to the king to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there!” ’ Now then, I want to see the king’s face, and if I am guilty of anything, let him put me to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:12 - It may be that the LORD will look upon my misery and restore to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse today.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - and said to him, “May my lord not hold me guilty. Do not remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

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