עֲוִית
Avith
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Avith’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5762 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עוית (ʻĂvîyth) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Avith.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Genesis 36:35, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5762 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 50%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was avith 2×
- American Standard Version: Was avith 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Was avith 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Avith 1×, Was avith 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5762 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Avith = "ruins"
- the city of Hadad Ben-Bedad, one of the kings of Edom
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in Edom Gn 36:35 = Qr 1 Ch 1:46 (Kt עיות); 𝔊 Γεθθαιμ, but 𝔊L 1 Ch 1:46 Ευιθ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עוה (ʻâvâh) (H5753) — to twist.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַוִּית
- , Pa. of עֲוַת.
עַוִּית ²
- (עָוָה) convulsion. Ḥull. 60ᵇ (play on עַוִּים, v. עָוָה) שכל הרואה אותם אוחזתו ע׳ whoever saw them was seized with convulsions (from fright); Yalk. Deut. 809; Yalk. Josh. 22. Gitt. 70ᵃ. Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 21, v. פִּיקָה II. Koh. R. to I, 18 ראית מימיך חמור ע׳ עליו וכ׳ hast thou ever seen an ass in spasms, a camel in spasms?; v. אַבְאָבִית.
עֲוַת
- 1. to offend, oppress. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 78. Targ. II Esth. I, 1 מלכא מְעַוְּותָא a tyrannous king.
- 2. to do a thing wrong. Ber. 14ᵇ שלוחא הוא דע׳ the servant did the wrong thing. Keth. 85ᵃ, a. fr. לתקוני שדרתיך ולא לעַוּוּתֵי I deputed thee to do the right thing (to benefit me), but not to do it wrong (impair my cause); Ned. 36ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H5762 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲוִֽית | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:35 | 2 |
| עיות | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:46 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5762, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מעי mᵉʻîy H4596 ruin
- עוה ʻavvâh H5754 distortion
- עויא ʻivyâʼ H5758 perversity
- עון ʻâvôn H5771 iniquity
- עועה ʻavʻeh H5773 distorting
- עי ʻîy H5856 ruin
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Avith). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(ruins), the city of Hadad ben-Bedad, one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel. (Genesis 36:35; 1 Chronicles 1:46)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
wicked, perverse
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
