1) to be bad, be evil 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to be displeasing 1a2) to be sad 1a3) to be injurious, be evil 1a4) to be wicked, be evil (ethically) 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to do an injury or hurt 1b2) to do evil or wickedly 1b3) mischief (participle)
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H7489 — רָעַע
ra.a · be evil · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 19:7 · תָּרֵֽעוּ׃He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.Genesis 19:9 · נָרַ֥עThey said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.Genesis 21:11 · וַיֵּ֧רַעThe thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.Genesis 21:12 · יֵרַ֤עGod said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.Genesis 31:7 · לְהָרַ֖עYour father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.Genesis 38:10 · וַיֵּ֛רַעThe thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.Genesis 43:6 · הֲרֵעֹתֶ֖םIsrael said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”Genesis 44:5 · הֲרֵעֹתֶ֖םIsn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”Genesis 48:17 · וַיֵּ֣רַעWhen Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.Exodus 5:22 · הֲרֵעֹ֙תָה֙Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?Exodus 5:23 · הֵרַ֖עFor since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all.”Exodus 21:8 · רָעָ֞הIf she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.Leviticus 5:4 · לְהָרַ֣ע׀“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.Numbers 11:10 · רָֽע׃Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.Numbers 11:11 · הֲרֵעֹ֙תָ֙Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?Numbers 16:15 · הֲרֵעֹ֖תִיMoses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering: I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”Numbers 20:15 · וַיָּרֵ֥עוּhow our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:Numbers 22:34 · רַ֥עBalaam said to the angel of Yahweh, “I have sinned; for I didn’t know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again.”Deuteronomy 15:9 · וְרָעָ֣הBeware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;” and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.Deuteronomy 15:10 · יֵרַ֥עYou shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.Deuteronomy 26:6 · וַיָּרֵ֧עוּThe Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:Deuteronomy 28:54 · תֵּרַ֨עThe man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;Deuteronomy 28:56 · תֵּרַ֤עThe tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,Joshua 24:15 · רַ֨עIf it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”Joshua 24:20 · וְהֵרַ֤עIf you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”Judges 19:23 · תָּרֵ֣עוּThe man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, “No, my brothers, please don’t act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, don’t do this folly.Ruth 1:21 · הֵ֥רַֽעI went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”1 Samuel 8:6 · וַיֵּ֤רַעBut the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.1 Samuel 12:25 · הָרֵ֖עַ · תָּרֵ֑עוּBut if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.”1 Samuel 18:8 · וַיֵּ֤רַעSaul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”1 Samuel 25:34 · מֵהָרַ֖עFor indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”1 Samuel 26:21 · אָרַ֤עThen Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”2 Samuel 11:25 · יֵרַ֤עThen David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”2 Samuel 11:27 · וַיֵּ֧רַעWhen the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.2 Samuel 19:7 · וְרָעָ֧הNow therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”2 Samuel 20:6 · יֵ֧רַֽעDavid said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”1 Kings 14:9 · וַתָּ֣רַעbut have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:1 Kings 16:25 · וַיָּ֕רַעOmri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.1 Kings 17:20 · הֲרֵע֖וֹתָHe cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I stay, by killing her son?”2 Kings 21:11 · הֵרַ֕ע“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;1 Chronicles 16:22 · תָּרֵֽעוּ׃ פ“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”1 Chronicles 21:7 · וַיֵּ֙רַע֙God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.1 Chronicles 21:17 · וְהָרֵ֣עַ · הֲרֵע֔וֹתִיDavid said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”Nehemiah 2:3 · יֵרְע֣וּI said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”Nehemiah 2:10 · וַיֵּ֥רַעWhen Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.Nehemiah 13:8 · וַיֵּ֥רַֽעIt grieved me severely: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room.Job 8:20 · מְרֵעִֽים׃“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.Job 20:26 · יֵ֖רַעAll darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.Job 34:24 · יָרֹ֣עַHe breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.Psalm 2:9 · תְּ֭רֹעֵםYou shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”Psalm 15:4 · לְ֝הָרַ֗עIn whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;Psalm 22:16 · מְ֭רֵעִיםFor dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.Psalm 26:5 · מְרֵעִ֑יםI hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.Psalm 27:2 · מְרֵעִים֮When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.Psalm 37:1 · בַּמְּרֵעִ֑יםBy David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.Psalm 37:8 · לְהָרֵֽעַ׃Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.Psalm 37:9 · מְ֭רֵעִיםFor evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.Psalm 44:2 · תָּרַ֥עYou drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.Psalm 64:2 · מְרֵעִ֑יםHide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;Psalm 74:3 · הֵרַ֖עLift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.Psalm 92:11 · מְרֵעִ֗יםMy eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.Psalm 94:16 · מְרֵעִ֑יםWho will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?Psalm 105:15 · תָּרֵֽעוּ׃“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”Psalm 106:32 · וַיֵּ֥רַעThey angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;Psalm 119:115 · מְרֵעִ֑יםDepart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.Proverbs 4:16 · יָרֵ֑עוּFor they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.Proverbs 11:15 · יֵ֭רוֹעַHe who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.Proverbs 13:20 · יֵרֽוֹעַ׃One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.Proverbs 17:4 · מֵ֭רַעAn evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.Proverbs 18:24 · לְהִתְרֹעֵ֑עַA man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.Proverbs 24:8 · לְהָרֵ֑עַOne who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.Proverbs 24:18 · וְרַ֣עlest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.Proverbs 24:19 · בַּמְּרֵעִ֑יםDon’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:Isaiah 1:4 · מְרֵעִ֔יםAh sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.Isaiah 1:16 · הָרֵֽעַ׃Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.Isaiah 3:11 · רָ֑עWoe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.Isaiah 8:9 · רֹ֤עוּMake an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!Isaiah 9:17 · וּמֵרַ֔עTherefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.Isaiah 11:9 · יָרֵ֥עוּThey will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.Isaiah 14:20 · מְרֵעִֽים׃You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.Isaiah 24:19 · רֹ֥עָה · הִֽתְרֹעֲעָ֖הThe earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.Isaiah 31:2 · מְרֵעִ֔יםYet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.Isaiah 41:23 · וְתָרֵ֔עוּDeclare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.Isaiah 59:15 · וַיֵּ֥רַעYes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.Isaiah 65:25 · יָרֵ֧עוּThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.Jeremiah 4:22 · לְהָרַ֔ע“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”Jeremiah 7:26 · הֵרֵ֖עוּyet they didn’t listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.Jeremiah 10:5 · יָרֵ֔עוּThey are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak: they must be carried, because they can’t go. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”Jeremiah 11:16 · וְרָע֖וּYahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.Jeremiah 13:23 · הָרֵֽעַ׃Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.Jeremiah 15:12 · הֲיָרֹ֨עַCan one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?Jeremiah 16:12 · הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥םand you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me:Jeremiah 20:13 · מְרֵעִֽים׃ סSing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.Jeremiah 23:14 · מְרֵעִ֔יםIn the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.Jeremiah 25:6 · אָרַ֖עand don’t go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don’t provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.Jeremiah 25:29 · לְהָרַ֔עFor, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.Jeremiah 31:28 · וּלְהָרֵ֑עַIt shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 38:9 · הֵרֵ֜עוּMy lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.Jeremiah 40:4 · רַ֧עNow, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.Jonah 4:1 · וַיֵּ֥רַעBut it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.Micah 3:4 · הֵרֵ֖עוּThen they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”Micah 4:6 · הֲרֵעֹֽתִי׃“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;Zephaniah 1:12 · יָרֵֽעַ׃It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”Zechariah 8:14 · לְהָרַ֣עFor thus says Yahweh of Armies: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;