H5767: עַוָּל
ʻavvâl · pronounced av-vawl' · “unjust”
Definition
evil (morally)
KJV translates it as: unjust, unrighteous, wicked.
Word origin: intensive from H5765 (עֲוַל);
Extended definition
unjust one, perverse one, unrighteous one
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5767 is translated
- an evil-doer ×3
- the unrighteous ×1
- an unrighteous person ×1
Bible verses with H5767 (ʻavvâl)
ʻavvâl appears in 5 verses.
- Job 18:21
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
- Job 27:7
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
- Job 29:17
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- Zephaniah 3:5
The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.