1) badness, evil 1a) badness, bad quality 1b) wilfulness 1c) evil, badness (ethical) 1d) sadness
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H7455 — רֹעַ
ro.a · evil · Hebrew/Aramaic
19 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 41:19 · לָרֹֽעַ׃and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.Deuteronomy 28:20 · רֹ֥עַYahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.1 Samuel 17:28 · רֹ֣עַEliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”Nehemiah 2:2 · רֹ֣עַֽThe king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.Psalm 28:4 · וּכְרֹ֪עַGive them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.Ecclesiastes 7:3 · בְרֹ֥עַSorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.Isaiah 1:16 · רֹ֥עַWash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.Jeremiah 4:4 · רֹ֥עַCircumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.Jeremiah 21:12 · רֹ֥עַHouse of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.Jeremiah 23:2 · רֹ֥עַTherefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 23:22 · וּמֵרֹ֖עַBut if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 24:2 · מֵרֹֽעַ׃ סOne basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.Jeremiah 24:3 · מֵרֹֽעַ׃ פThen Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.Jeremiah 24:8 · מֵרֹ֑עַAs the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,Jeremiah 25:5 · וּמֵרֹ֣עַsaying, Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forevermore;Jeremiah 26:3 · רֹ֥עַIt may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.Jeremiah 29:17 · מֵרֹֽעַ׃thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.Jeremiah 44:22 · רֹ֣עַso that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.Hosea 9:15 · רֹ֣עַ“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.