עָ֫וֶל
injustice
also: unrighteousness, wrong fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H5766 appears in the Construct state in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
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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.
At its core, עול (ʻevel) means “injustice.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “iniquity” in the King James Version, “injustice” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It turns up in 51 verses across 16 books, a moderately common footprint. Scripture first uses it in Leviticus 19:15. Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “unrighteousness” and “wrong”. Dig into 51-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5766 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 →
- 51
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 51 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #696
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 51 occurrences in the concordance →
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 51 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 28 verses · 55%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 19 verses · 37%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 8%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 5 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Iniquity 29×, Wickedness 6×, Unjust 2×
- American Standard Version†: Iniquity 18×, Unrighteousness 9×, Shall the children of wickedness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Iniquity 15×, Injustice 14×, Wrong 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Injustice 14×, Iniquity 10×, Wickedness 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5766 across 53† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5766 across 53† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5766 across 53† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5766 across 55† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עול I whole burnt-offering (that which goes up (√ 6) to heaven (al. on altar))
עול II ascent, stairway, עלותו Ez 40
עול III injustice, unrighteousness (opp. צְדָקָה)
עול IV
- 1. violent deeds of injustice, בְּנֵי עַוְלָה 2 S 3:34; 7:10 = 1 Ch 17:9; בֶּן־ע׳ ψ 89:23, cf. בְּנֵי עַלְוָה Ho 10:9 (read עַוְלָה Now); אישׁ מרמה וע׳ ψ 43:1; בע׳ Is 61:8; ‖ דַּם Mi 3:10; Hb 2:12; עשׂה ע׳ ψ 37:1 Zp 3:5, 13; פעל ע׳ ψ 58:3; 119:3; Jb 36:23; שׁלח בע׳ ידים ψ 125:3. e.g. 2 Samuel 3:34
- 2. injustice of speech: דבּר ע׳ Jb 13:7; 27:4; לשׁונכס ע׳ תהגה Is 59:3; בלשׁוני ע׳ Jb 6:30; ע׳ לא נמצא בשׂפתיו Mal 2:6; ע׳ קפצה פיה ψ 107:42; Jb 5:16. e.g. Job 13:7
- 3. injustice, in general, ψ 64:7; Jb 6:29; 11:14; 15:16; 22:23; 24:20, + 36:33 (for MT עוֹלֶה according to 𝔊 Di Bu Du al.), Ez 28:15 Pr 22:8; Ho 10:13; of God, לא ע׳ בוֹ ψ 92:16; אֵין עִם י׳ ע׳ 2 Ch 19:7. e.g. Psalms 64:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.f. whole burnt-offering (that which goes up (√ 6) to heaven (al. on altar));—ע׳ Gn 22:3 + 141 times; עוֹלָה Nu 28:37 + 33 times; cstr. עֹלַת Ex 29:42 + 27 times, עוֹלַת Nu 28:24 + 2 times; sf. עוֹלָֽתְךָ ψ 20:4, etc.; pl. עֹלוֹת Jos 8:31 + 42 times, עֹלֹת Gn 8:20 + 3 times; עוֹלֹת Dt 27:6, עוֹלוֹת Am 5:22 +; sf. עֹלוֹתֵיכֶם Je 6:20 +, etc.;—the whole burnt-offering (beast or fowl) is entirely consumed and goes up in the flame of the altar to God expressing the ascent of the soul in worship. All of the victim is laid on the altar except the hide and such parts as could not be washed clean. If beast the ע׳ must be a male without blemish Lv 1:3, 10; 22:18, 19, of herd or flock; if of flock, either sheep or goat; if fowl, either turtledove or young pigeon Lv 1:14, the latter usually offered by the poor †5:7; 12:8; 14:22; 15:14, 15, 29, 30; Nu 6:10, 11. A lamb was offered by individuals Lv 12:6; Nu 6:14, and by the nation at the עֹמֶר offering Lv 23:12, and daily at the עֹלַת הַבֹּקֶר 9:17; Nu 28:23; 2 K 16:15; Ez 46:13, and at morning and evening עלה תמיד Nu 28:3, †עֹלַת (הַ)תָּמִיד Ex 29:42; Nu 28:6, 10, 15, 23, 24, 31; 29:6, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38; Ezr 3:5; Ne 10:34; Ez 46:15. These were doubled at the עֹלַת שַׁבָּת Nu 28:10. A ram was offered by Aaron and his sons †Ex 29:18; Lv 8:18; 9:2; 16:3, 5; but a young bullock was of greater value Nu 15:8, 24; 2 S 24:22 1 Ch 21:23, at consecration of Levites Nu 8:12, so calves Mi 6:6; on great occasions bullocks + rams Nu 23:1–6, 14, 15, bullocks + rams + lambs Is 1:11; one of each kind offered by tribal chiefs Nu 7:15, 21, 27, 33, 39, 45, 51, 57, 63, 69, 76, 81, 87. In ritual of עֹלַת (ה)חֹדֶשׁ Nu 28:14; 29:6 and at מצּות and Pentecost 2 bullocks, 1 ram, and 7 lambs were added to daily offering Nu 28:11, 19, 27; at offering of new bread at Pentecost 1 bullock, 2 rams, and 7 lambs Lv 23:18; on the 1st and 10th of the 7th month and at עצרת 1 bullock, 1 ram, and 7 lambs, in addition to the offerings of new moon Nu 29:2, 8, 36; the system culminated in 70 bullocks, 14 rams, 98 lambs for the 7 days of Tabernacles 29:13 ff. According to Ezek. the prince was to offer on each of 7 days of מצות 7 bullocks and 7 rams Ez 45:23, and on Sabbath 6 lambs and 1 ram 46:4. At the reconsecration of temple 70 bullocks, 100 rams, and 200 lambs were offered 2 Ch 29:32, and at the return of exiles 12 bullocks, 96 rams, and 77 lambs Ezr 8:35. In early times whole burnt-offerings of children were sometimes made, e.g. Jephthah’s daughter Ju 11:31, Isaac proposed as, Gn 22:2 but ram substituted v 13; made to other gods 2 K 3:27; Je 19:5 +. The ע׳ was anciently made on any altar used for worship, but in P confined to †מִזְבַּח הָעֹלָה Ex 30:28; 31:9; 35:16; 38:1; 40:6, 10, 29; Lv 4:7, 10, 18, 25(×2), 30, 34; 1 Ch 6:34; 16:40; 21:26, 29; 2 Ch 29:18 (not in other lit.); מזבח לעלה Jos 22:29; 1 Ch 22:1. The offerer imposed his hands on head of animal, then slaughtered it Lv 1:4, 5; †שׁחט ע׳ 4:24, 33; 6:8; 7:2; 9:12; 14;14:13, 19, 31; Ez 40:39, 42; 44:11, and flayed it †הִפְשִׁיט ע׳ Lv 1:6 2 Ch 29:34. The priest washed the pieces Ez 40:38; arranged them on the altar above the wood Lv 6:5; the fire devoured them v 2–6; 9:24; 1 K 18:38; 2 Ch 7:1, they went up in the flame ריח ניחח ליהוה (ל) Lv 1:9, 13, 17; 8:21 Nu 28:13; לְרָצוֹן, according to character of offerer is Is 56:7; Je 6:20; see also ψ 20:4; 40:7; 51:18; 1 S 15:22. Phrases: †העלה ע׳ Gn 8:20 Ex 32:6 (J) 24:5 (E) 30:9; 40:29; Lv 14:20; 17:8 (P) Dt 12:13, 14; 27:6; Jos 8:31; 22:23; Ju 6:26; 20:26; 21:4; 1 S 6:14, 15; 7:9, 10; 10:8; 13:9, 10, 12; 2 S 6:17, 18; 24:24, 25; 1 K 3:4, 15; 9:25; 10:5; 2 K 3:27; 1 Ch 16:2, 40; 21:24, 26; 23:31; 29:21; 2 Ch 1:6; 8:12; 9:4; 23:18; 24:14; 29:7, 27; 35:14, 16; Ezr 3:2, 3, 6; Jb 1:5; 42:8 ψ 66:15 Je 14:12; 33:18; Ez 43:18, 24; Am 5:22 (cf. העלה 9); †זבח ע׳ Ex 20:24 (E); עשׂה לע׳ Lv 23:12; Nu 6:11; 15:24; 29:39; †עָשָׂה ע׳ Lv 5:10; 9:7, 22; 15:15, 30; 16:24(×2); Nu 6:16; 8:12; 15:3, 8; 29:2; Dt 12:27; Ju 13:16; 1 K 8:61; 2 K 5:17; 10:24, 25; 2 Ch 7:7; Ez 43:27; 45:17, 23; 46:2, 12(×2), 13; †הִקְרִיב ע׳ Lv 7:8; 9:16; 10:19; 23:37; Nu 28:3, 11, 19, 27; 29:8, 13, 36; 1 Ch 16:1; Ezr 8:35; Ez 46:4; הקריב לע׳ Lv 22:18; Nu 6:14; †הביא ע׳ Dt 12:6, 11; 2 Ch 29:31, 32; 30:15; Is 43:23; Je 17:26; †הקטיר ע׳ 2 K 16:13, 15; 2 Ch 13:11.—עֹלָתָה, עוֹלוֹת v. also עַוְלָה sub I. עוּל.
II. n.f. ascent, stairway, עלותו Ez 40:26 Kt, עֹלוֹתָיו Qr; read prob. מַעֲלָתוֹ (𝔊 Co SS לוֹ, Toy עֹלָתוֹ).
I. n.m. injustice, unrighteousness (opp. צְדָקָה);—ע׳ Lv 19:15 +; cstr. עֶ֫וֶל Ez 28:18 (van d. H. עָוֶל, but v. Baer Ginsb); sf. עַוְלוֹ 18:26; 33:13;—עשׂה עול Lv 19:15, 35 (H) Dt 25:16; Ez 3:20; 18:24, 26(×2); 33:13(×2), 15, 18; פעל ע׳ Jb 34:32; הִתְעִיבוּ ע׳ ψ 53:2 (‖ עֲלִילָה 14:2); שׁפט ע׳ 82:2; אישׁ ע׳ Pr 29:27; ע׳ בְּכַפַּי ψ 7:4; מצא ע׳ בְּ Je 2:5, read prob. also Ez 28:15 (for MT עולתה); מע׳ ישׁיב ידוֹ 18:8; בְּעֶוֶל רְכֻלָּֽתְךָ 28:18; of God, אין עול (‖ אֱמוּנָה) Dt 32:4; חָלִלָה מע׳ Jb 34:10.
I. n.f. Jb 11:14 (? m. Mal 2:6 Köii. 2, 453, § 345 d Ez 28:15 [עולתה; but ע׳ only here Ez, error for עול] questioned by SS, v. AlbrechtZAW xvi (1896), 117) injustice, unrighteousness, wrong;—ע׳ ψ 37:1 + 24 times, + i. עוֹלָה Is 61:8 (read prob. עַוְלָה); עַוְלָ֫תָה ψ 125:3; 92:16 (Qr) + 2 times; עֹלָ֫תָה v 16 (Kt) Jb 5:16; pl. עוֹלוֹת ψ 58:3; 64:7;—
I. Jb 5:16 etc., v. עַוְלָה sub עָוַל.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עול (ʻăval) (H5765) — to act wrongfully.
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.
עוֹל
- imperat. of עֲלַל.
עוּל
- (interch. with עֲלַל)
- 1. to come, come in. Perf. עָל, עָאל; part. עָל, עָאֵיל, עָאֵל, עָיֵיל. Targ. O. Ex. VII, 23 על; Targ. Y. עאל (ed. Amst. אָעַל). Targ. Y. ib. XXXIII, 9 עאיל (ed. Amst. אָעֵיל). Targ. O. Gen. XXIII, 10 עָאלֵי (ed. Berl. a. oth. עָלֵי; Y. עֲלֵי). Targ. Prov. XVII, 10 עָאלָא ed. Lag. (oth. ed. עָלָא); a. fr.—Y. Kidd. II, 63ᵃ top דחק סומכוס ועאל S. pressed on and went in. Yoma 51ᵇ נֵיעוּל וכ׳ (Ms. M. נעביד) let him make his entrance in the way prescribed by R. J. Ib. 52ᵃ ניעול בין מנורה וכ׳ let him make his entrance between the candlestick and the wall. Pes. 112ᵃ; B. Bath. 21ᵃ שבשתא כיון דעל על a mistake once entered (into the mind) remains therein. Sabb. 98ᵇ האי עָיֵיל והאי נפיק one will go in (recede), the other go out (protrude, i.e. form an uneven surface.); a. v. fr.—
- *2. to bring in. Targ. Y. Gen. VI, 19 תֵעוֹל ed. Vien. (v. עֲלַל).—Gen. R. s. 67 (ref. to ועל חרבך Gen. XXVII, 40) עול חרבך וכ׳ bring thy sword home (into its sheath), and thou shalt live; (Yalk. ib. 115 תטול, read: תֵּעוּל). e.g. Genesis 27:40
- 1. to come in habitually. Inf. מְעַיֵּיל, v. מֵעֲלָא.
- 2. to bring in, insert. Ḥull. 42ᵇ אפיק … ועַיֵּיל, v. נֽפַק. Erub. 44ᵇ בעי עַיְּילִינְהוּ wanted to bring them in. Sabb. 96ᵇ מה לי אפוקי ומה לי עַיּיוּלֵי what is the difference between carrying out and bringing in? Erub. 38ᵇ ע׳ רב חסדא וכ׳ R. Ḥ. brought (the subject) in, in order to show a contradiction &c. Keth. 61ᵃ, עַיְּילִית וכ׳, v. חֲרִיקָא. Ib. 101ᵃ עַיְּילָא ליה גלימא if she brought him a cloak (as dowry). Yoma 47ᵃ נְעַיֵּיל והדר נעייל shall he bring in (one portion) and again bring in (another portion)?; a. fr.
- 3. to produce, develop, ripen. R. Hash. 13ᵃ ודילמא לא ע׳ כלל perhaps it means when it (the growing vegetation) had not yet begun to ripen at all? Ib. דע׳ ביד נכרי the barley of which the ‘Omer was brought had ripened while in the possession of a gentile (a Canaanite). Ib. דע׳ ריבעא if it has developped one fourth of the full size; a. e.
- to insert one’s self; to get in. Yoma 51ᵇ ולא מִתְעַיֵּיל ליה he could not get himself in (between the table and the wall).
- ; Ittaf. אִיתָּעַל, Ithpe. אִתְעַל, v. עֲלַל.
עוֹל ²
- yoke; also pole of a wagon. Kil. II, 6 מלא הע׳ השרוני the width of the yoke (the team) used in the plain of Sharon. Kel. XIV, 4 הע׳ של מתכות a metal pole (v. Maim. a. l.); ib. 5 הע׳ המצופה the metal-tipped pole. Sifré Num. 123 בע׳ שלא לעבודה וכ׳ the text speaks of a yoke not put on for working. Sot. 46ᵃ ע׳ פוסל בין בשעת וכ׳ the bearing of a yoke disqualifies the animal for the ceremony, whether it was put on at working time &c.; a. fr.—Trnsf. obligation, dependence. Ab. III, 5 כל המקבל עליו ע׳ תורה … ע׳ מלכות וע׳ דרך ארץ whosoever takes upon himself the yoke (obligations) of the Law, from him shall be removed the yoke of government (oppression) and the yoke of worldly affairs; וכל הפורק ממנו ע׳ תורה וכ׳ but he who throws off the yoke of the Law, will be made to feel the yoke of &c. Ber. II, 2 כדי שיקבל עליו ע׳ מלכות שמים … ע׳ מצות in order that he may acknowledge his dependence on divine government first (by reciting Deut. VI, 4 sq., v. שְׁמַע) and then his subjection to religious duties (by reciting Deut. XI, 13 sq.); a. fr.—Pl.) עוּלִּין. Tanḥ. V’zoth 5 שני ע׳ וכ׳ thou puttest two yokes upon thy children; Yalk. Deut. 952. e.g. Deuteronomy 6:4
עָוַל
- (b. h.), Pi. עִוֵּול, עִיוֵּל (denom. of עָוֶל) to act perversely; to do wrong, cheat. Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8 המְעַוּוֵל במידות והמשקר וכ׳ he who cheats in measuring, and is false in weighing; Mekh. Mishp. s. 13. Yalk. Num. 765 מה אתה מועל ומשקר וכ׳ (read: מְעַוֵּל) why dost thou cheat and give false weights?; Tanḥ. Balak 12 מה אתה עושה מעולה ומשקר וכ׳ (corr. acc.); ib. ed. Bab. 16; a. e.
עָוֶל
- perversion, fault. Yalk. Lam. 999 לא מצא בי ע׳ found no fault with me. Ib. מצאתם בי ע׳ you found fault with me; a. e.
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 30 distinct written forms H5766 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5766, 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.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 48 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 51 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Leviticus 19:15
- Deuteronomy 25:16
- 2 Samuel 3:34
- 1 Chronicles 17:9
- 2 Chronicles 19:7
- Job 5:16
- Psalms 7:3
- Proverbs 22:8
- Isaiah 59:3
- Jeremiah 2:5
- Ezekiel 3:20
- Hosea 10:13
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.
