Strong’s H5791 · Hebrew

עָוַת
ʻâvath
aw-vath'

Definition

to wrest

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • bow self
  • (make) crooked
  • falsifying
  • overthrow
  • deal perversely
  • pervert
  • subvert
  • turn upside down

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.