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# עַוָּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5767

**unjust** — used 5 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

unjust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5767/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַוָּל: n.m. unjust, unrighteous one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5767/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. unjust, unrighteous one;—especially of oppressive ruler Zp 3:5; Jb 18:21; 27:7 (‖ רָשָׁע), 29:17; 31:3 (‖ פֹּעֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן); prob. also 16:11 (for MT עֲוִיל, so Di; ‖ רְשָׁעִים).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an unjust person (3); of \[the\] unjust person (1); of an unjust person (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.21/#tree)

אַךְ־אֵ֭לֶּה מִשְׁכְּנ֣וֹת עַוָּ֑ל וְ֝זֶ֗ה מְק֣וֹם לֹא־יָדַֽע־אֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* surely these \[are\].the.dwelling.places of.an.unjust.person and this \[is.the\].place of.\[one.who\].not he.knows God

*JPS 1917:* Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

[Job 27:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.7/#tree)

יְהִ֣י כְ֭רָשָׁע אֹ֣יְבִ֑י וּמִתְקוֹמְמִ֥י כְעַוָּֽל׃

*Word for word:* may.he.be like a.wicked.\[person\] enemy my and \[one who\].raises.himself.against.me like an.unjust.person

*JPS 1917:* Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5767.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5767/): 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).