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Injury | Injustice | Ink    INIQUITY - in-ik'-wi-ti (`awon;
anomia): In the Old Testament of the 11 words translated
"iniquity," by far the most common and important is `awon (about
215 times). Etymologically, it is customary to explain it as
meaning literally "crookedness," "perverseness," i.e. evil
regarded as that which is not straight or upright, moral
distortion (from `iwwah, "to bend," "make crooked," "pervert").
Driver, however (following Lagarde), maintains that two roots,
distinct in Arabic, have been confused in Hebrew, one = "to
bend," "pervert" (as above), and the other = "to err," "go
astray"; that `awon is derived from the latter, and consequently
expresses the idea of error, deviation from the right path,
rather than that of perversion (Driver, Notes on Sam, 135 note)
Whichever etymology is adopted, in actual usa