Strong's #7455: roa` (pronounced ro'-ah)
from 7489; badness (as marring), physically or morally:--X be so bad, badness, (X be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
rôa‛
1) badness, evil
1a) badness, bad quality
1b) wilfulness
1c) evil, badness (ethical)
1d) sadness
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H7489
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Genesis 41:19: "saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:"
Deuteronomy 28:20: "thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken"
1 Samuel 17:28: "know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that"
Nehemiah 2:2: "this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore"
Psalms 28:4: "Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render"
Ecclesiastes 7:3: "is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better."
Isaiah 1:16: "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;"
Jeremiah 4:4: "that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings."
Jeremiah 21:12: "and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings."
Jeremiah 23:2: "I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 23:22: "then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings."
Jeremiah 24:2: "which could not be eaten, they were so bad."
Jeremiah 24:3: "that cannot be eaten, they are so evil."
Jeremiah 24:8: "which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith"
Jeremiah 25:5: "every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell"
Jeremiah 26:3: "I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings."
Jeremiah 29:17: "that cannot be eaten, they are so evil."
Jeremiah 44:22: "longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because"
Hosea 9:15: "there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,"
