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# עַוָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5754

**distortion** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

distortion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5754/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַוָּה: n.f. distortion, ruin Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5754/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. distortion, ruin;—עַוָּה עַוָּה עַוָּה אֲשִׂימֶנָּה Ez 21:32 (cf. √ Pi. Is 24:1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a ruin (3).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 21:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.32/#tree)

עַוָּ֥ה עַוָּ֖ה עַוָּ֣ה אֲשִׂימֶ֑נָּה גַּם־זֹאת֙ לֹ֣א הָיָ֔ה עַד־בֹּ֛א אֲשֶׁר־ל֥וֹ הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט וּנְתַתִּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* a.ruin a.ruin a.ruin I will.make.it also this not it.will.be until comes \[the.one\].whom \[belongs\].to him the judgment and I will.give.it

*JPS 1917:* A ruin, a ruin, a ruin, will I make it; this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is, and I will give it him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5754.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5754/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).