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# עָוַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5765

**act wrongfully** — used 2 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

act wrongfully [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5765/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָוַל: vb. denom. act wrongfully [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5765/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. (Gerber31) act wrongfully;— Impf. 3 ms. יְעַוֵּל Is 26:10 (opp. נְכֹחוֹת); Pt. מְעַוֵּל ψ 71:4 (+ חוֹמֵץ, ‖ רָשָׁע).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he acts unjustly (1); of \[one who\] acts unjustly (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 71:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.4/#tree)

אֱ‍ֽלֹהַ֗י פַּ֭לְּטֵנִי מִיַּ֣ד רָשָׁ֑ע מִכַּ֖ף מְעַוֵּ֣ל וְחוֹמֵץ׃

*Word for word:* my.God my deliver me from.\[the\] hand of.\[the\].wicked from.\[the\] palm of.\[one.who\].acts.unjustly and \[one.who.is\].ruthless

*JPS 1917:* O my God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

[Isaiah 26:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.10/#tree)

יֻחַ֤ן רָשָׁע֙ בַּל־לָמַ֣ד צֶ֔דֶק בְּאֶ֥רֶץ נְכֹח֖וֹת יְעַוֵּ֑ל וּבַל־יִרְאֶ֖ה גֵּא֥וּת יְהוָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he.is.shown.favor \[the\].wicked not he.learns righteousness in a.land of.straightforwardness(es) he.acts.unjustly and not he.sees the.majesty of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5765.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5765/): 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).