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# עָוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5753

**commit iniquity** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

commit iniquity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5753/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָוָה²: vb. denom. commit iniquity, do wrong [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5753/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. (Gerber90) commit iniquity, do wrong (Aramaic עוי commit sin, עֲוָיָא sin, cf. LevyNHWB iii. 626);— (late) Pf. 3 fs. עָֽוְתָה Est 1:16 she hath done wrong (c. עַל); 1 pl. עָוִינוּ Dn 9:5 we have committed iniquity (‖ חָטָא). commit iniquity;—Pf. 3 ms. הֶעֱוָה 2 S 19:20; 1 s. הֶעֱוֵיתִי 24:17 (‖ חָטָא); 1 pl. הֶעֱוִינוּ 1 K 8:47 = 2 Ch 6:37, ψ 106:6 (all ‖ חָטָא); Inf. abs. הַעֲוֵה Je 9:4, cstr. sf. הַעֲוֹתוֹ 2 S 7:14.—Jb 33:27 v. I. עָוָה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: we have done wrong (3); I am bent down (1); I am bent over (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.6/#tree)

חָטָ֥אנוּ עִם־אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ הֶעֱוִ֥ינוּ הִרְשָֽׁעְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* we.have.sinned with ancestors our we.have.done.wrong we.have.acted.wickedly

*JPS 1917:* We have sinned with our fathers, we have done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.

[Lamentations 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/#tree)

גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he.has.walled.up ways my with hewn.\[stone\] paths my he.has.made.crooked

*JPS 1917:* He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5753.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5753/): 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).