עָ֫וֶל
e.vel
injustice
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word H5766B, represented as 'e.vel, is used 32 times in the Bible. Its short definition is "injustice," indicating a state of unrighteousness or wrongful behavior. Within the semantic domain of Law & Justice, this word is deeply connected to concepts of morality, ethics, and righteousness. In its occurrences throughout the Bible, 'e.vel refers to actions that go against justice, often describing the behavior of individuals or groups who have been oppressive, deceitful, or exploitative. The range of usage suggests that this word can be applied to various situations, from societal injustices to personal interactions. Its significant frequency in the Bible underscores the importance of justice and morality in the context of the ancient Hebrew culture. A closer look at the word 'e.vel reveals its multifaceted nature, encompassing not only physical harm but also emotional and economic oppression. This understanding highlights the comprehensive nature of injustice in the biblical perspective, which extends beyond individual actions to encompass systemic injustices that affect communities and societies as a whole.
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Occurrences in Scripture
32 total occurrences across the text
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
Job 6:29Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Job 6:30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
Job 13:7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
Job 15:16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
Job 24:20The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
Job 27:4surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.
Job 36:23Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
Psalms 92:15to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms 37:1Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Psalms 58:2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms 64:6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
Psalms 89:22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
Psalms 107:42The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
Psalms 119:3Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.
Psalms 125:3For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
Proverbs 22:8He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
2 Samuel 3:34Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
Hosea 10:13You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
Micah 3:10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Zephaniah 3:5Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
Zephaniah 3:13The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
Malachi 2:6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
2 Samuel 7:10I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not afflict them any more, as at the first,
1 Chronicles 17:9I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more. The children of wickedness will not waste them any more, as at the first,
2 Chronicles 19:7Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”