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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
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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 [Hosea 12:8].
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; 12:8; 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 44 times in 38 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for[fn] his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:19 - But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4 - “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment[fn] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5 - For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:6 - And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:13 - For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:16 - And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:19 - They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - And they shall bear their punishment[fn]—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:49 - Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:17 - withholds his hand from iniquity,[fn] takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18 - As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:19 - “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:30 - “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:23 - But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:24 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - And you, O profane[fn] wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:23 - Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:18 - By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your trade
you profaned your sanctuaries;
so I brought fire out from your midst;
it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all who saw you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:16 - And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:27 - And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9 - But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5 - Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:31 - Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:33 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:10 - “As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.
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