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# עִוְעִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5773

**distorting** — used 1 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

distorting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5773/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִוְעִים: n.pl.abstr. distorting, warping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5773/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.abstr. distorting, warping (for \*עַוְעֲוִים);—רוּחַ עִוְעִים Is 19:14 temper of distorting, i.e. warped judgment.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of confusion(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 19:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.14/#tree)

יְהוָ֛ה מָסַ֥ךְ בְּקִרְבָּ֖הּ ר֣וּחַ עִוְעִ֑ים וְהִתְע֤וּ אֶת־מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ בְּכָֽל־מַעֲשֵׂ֔הוּ כְּהִתָּע֥וֹת שִׁכּ֖וֹר בְּקִיאֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh he.has.mixed in midst its a.spirit of.confusion(s) and they.have.misled (et) Egypt in every deed its as is.made.to.stagger a.drunkard in vomit his

*JPS 1917:* The LORD hath mingled within her a spirit of dizziness; and they have caused Egypt to stagger in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5773/): 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).