# עֶוֶל (evel)

Israeli respelling: e-vel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5766. 51 Old Testament occurrences.

(moral) evil

King James renderings: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/evel-h5766

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/15) — Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in right…
- [Leviticus 19:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/35) — Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
- [Deuteronomy 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/16) — For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
- [Deuteronomy 32:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/4) — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- [2 Samuel 3:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/34) — Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again…
- [2 Samuel 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/10) — Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; n…
- [1 Chronicles 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/17/9) — Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neit…
- [2 Chronicles 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/19/7) — Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of per…
- [Job 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/16) — So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
- [Job 6:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/29) — Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- [Job 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/30) — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- [Job 11:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/14) — If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- [Job 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/7) — Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- [Job 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/16) — How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- [Job 22:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/22/23) — If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- [Job 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/20) — The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- [Job 27:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/4) — My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
- [Job 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/10) — Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should…
- [Job 34:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/32) — That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
- [Job 36:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/23) — Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
- [Psalms 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/3) — O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
- [Psalms 37:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/1) — Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- [Psalms 43:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/43/1) — Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- [Psalms 53:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/53/1) — The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
- [Psalms 58:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/2) — Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- [Psalms 64:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/6) — They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
- [Psalms 82:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/82/2) — How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
- [Psalms 89:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/22) — The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- [Psalms 92:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/15) — To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
- [Psalms 107:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/42) — The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
- [Psalms 119:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/3) — They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
- [Psalms 125:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/125/3) — For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
- [Proverbs 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/8) — He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
- [Proverbs 29:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/27) — An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
- [Isaiah 59:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/3) — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- [Jeremiah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/5) — Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are bec…
- [Ezekiel 3:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/3/20) — Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: be…
- [Ezekiel 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/8) — He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true ju…
- [Ezekiel 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/24) — But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the w…
- [Ezekiel 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/26) — When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done sh…
- [Ezekiel 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/15) — Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- [Ezekiel 28:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/18) — Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fir…
- [Ezekiel 33:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/13) — When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousn…
- [Ezekiel 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/15) — If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely…
- [Ezekiel 33:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/18) — When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
- [Hosea 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/13) — Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude…
- [Micah 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/10) — They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
- [Habakkuk 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/12) — Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
- [Zephaniah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/5) — The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the…
- [Zephaniah 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/13) — The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed…
- [Malachi 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/6) — The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away fr…