עָוַת (ʿāwat) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning be bent. It appears
11 times
in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H5791).
Also rendered
to pervert
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1591)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1591)be bent, crooked; make crooked, pervert, bend; what is bent; and, bend themselves; wrest; bow self, falsifying, overthrow, deal perversely, subvert, turn upside down
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.