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# עָוֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5766

**injustice** — used 21 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

injustice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5766/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָ֫וֶל: n.m. injustice, unrighteousness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5766/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. injustice, unrighteousness (opp. צְדָקָה);—ע׳ Lv 19:15 +; cstr. עֶ֫וֶל Ez 28:18 (van d. H. עָוֶל, but v. Baer Ginsb); sf. עַוְלוֹ 18:26; 33:13;—עשׂה עול Lv 19:15, 35 (H) Dt 25:16; Ez 3:20; 18:24, 26(×2); 33:13(×2), 15, 18; פעל ע׳ Jb 34:32; הִתְעִיבוּ ע׳ ψ 53:2 (‖ עֲלִילָה 14:2); שׁפט ע׳ 82:2; אישׁ ע׳ Pr 29:27; ע׳ בְּכַפַּי ψ 7:4; מצא ע׳ בְּ Je 2:5, read prob. also Ez 28:15 (for MT עולתה); מע׳ ישׁיב ידוֹ 18:8; בְּעֶוֶל רְכֻלָּֽתְךָ 28:18; of God, אין עול (‖ אֱמוּנָה) Dt 32:4; חָלִלָה מע׳ Jb 34:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (28 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (18 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: injustice (10); unrighteousness (8); (of) injustice (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 82:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.82.2/#tree)

עַד־מָתַ֥י תִּשְׁפְּטוּ־עָ֑וֶל וּפְנֵ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים תִּשְׂאוּ־סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* until when? will.you.judge injustice and.\[the\] face of.wicked.\[people\] will.you.lift.up Selah

*JPS 1917:* 'How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked?

[Proverbs 29:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.27/#tree)

תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת צַ֭דִּיקִים אִ֣ישׁ עָ֑וֶל וְתוֹעֲבַ֖ת רָשָׁ֣ע יְשַׁר־דָּֽרֶךְ׃פ

*Word for word:* \[is\].an.abomination of.righteous.\[people\] a.person of.injustice and.\[is\] an.abomination of.\[the\].wicked a.\[person\].upright of.way

*JPS 1917:* An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5766.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5766/): 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).