# עָוַת (avat)

Israeli respelling: a-vat. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5791. 10 Old Testament occurrences.

to wrest

King James renderings: bow self, (make) crooked., falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, pervert, subvert, turn upside down.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/avat-h5791

## Occurrences

- [Job 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/3) — Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
- [Job 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/6) — Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- [Job 34:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/12) — Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
- [Psalms 119:78](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/146/9) — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- [Ecclesiastes 1:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/15) — That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
- [Ecclesiastes 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/13) — Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
- [Ecclesiastes 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/3) — In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are fe…
- [Lamentations 3:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/36) — To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
- [Amos 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/5) — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and th…