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ʿāwat עָוַת ‘to pervert’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: a primitive root

ʿāwat v
1) to be bent, be crooked, bend, make crooked, pervert
 1a)(Piel)
  1a1) to make crooked, falsify, pervert, subvert
  1a2) to bend, make crooked
 1b) (Pual) thing bent (participle)
 1c) (Hithpael) to bend oneself

Mentioned in Amos 8:5 Psalms 146:9, 119:78 Job 8:3, 34:12, 19:6 Lamentations 3:36 Ecclesiastes 12:3, 7:13, 1:15

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