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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)
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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 2:6 Köii. 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)

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 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 righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:35 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:16 - For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 -
The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.

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Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters:
As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall.
And all the people wept again over him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:10

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 be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,

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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 be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:7 - Now therefore let the fear of Jehovah be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Jehovah our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 -
So the poor hath hope,
And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:29 -
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice;
Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:30 -
Is there injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 -
If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away,
And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:7 -
Will ye speak unrighteously for God,
And talk deceitfully for him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 -
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,
A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:23 -
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up,
If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 -
The womb shall forget him;
The worm shall feed sweetly on him;
He shall be no more remembered;
And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:4 -
Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness,
Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 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 commit iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:32 -
That which I see not teach thou me:
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:23 -
Who hath enjoined him his way?
Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:3 -
O Jehovah my God, if I have done this;
If there be iniquity in my hands;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:1 -
A Psalm of David.
Fret not thyself because of evil-doers,
Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:1 -
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:
Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 53:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 -
For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David.
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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:2 -
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 64:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:6 -
They search out iniquities;
We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search:
And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 82:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:2 -
How long will ye judge unjustly,
And respect the persons of the wicked?
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 -
The enemy shall not exact from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:15 -
To show that Jehovah is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:42 -
The upright shall see it, and be glad;
And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:3 -
Yea, they do no unrighteousness;
They walk in his ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 125:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:3 -
For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;
That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 -
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity;
And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 29:27

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An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous;
And he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:3 - For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:20 - Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true justice between man and man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:26 - When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:15 - Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:13 - When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath committed, therein shall he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:18 - When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:13 - Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:10 - They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:12 - Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 - Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 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 and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

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