Strong's #7451: ra` (pronounced rah)
from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):-- adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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ra‛ / râ‛âh
1) bad, evil (adjective)
1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
1c) evil, displeasing
1d) bad (of its kind - land, water, etc)
1e) bad (of value)
1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
1g) sad, unhappy
1h) evil (hurtful)
1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
1j2) deeds, actions
2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity (noun masculine)
2a) evil, distress, adversity
2b) evil, injury, wrong
2c) evil (ethical)
3) evil, misery, distress, injury (noun feminine)
3a) evil, misery, distress
3b) evil, injury, wrong
3c) evil (ethical)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H7489
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2191a, 2191c
Usage:
This word is used 668 times:
1 Samuel 30:22: "Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that"
2 Samuel 3:39: "me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness."
2 Samuel 3:39: "shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness."
2 Samuel 12:9: "the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah"
2 Samuel 12:11: "the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take"
2 Samuel 12:18: "hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child"
2 Samuel 13:16: "unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other"
2 Samuel 13:22: "neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated"
2 Samuel 14:17: "the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with"
2 Samuel 15:14: "he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city"
2 Samuel 16:8: "of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man."
2 Samuel 17:14: "of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom."
2 Samuel 18:32: "that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man"
2 Samuel 19:7: "with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that"
2 Samuel 19:35: "and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste"
2 Samuel 24:16: "it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people,"
1 Kings 1:52: "a hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die."
1 Kings 2:44: "knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that"
1 Kings 2:44: "therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;"
1 Kings 3:9: "that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge"
1 Kings 5:4: "on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent."
1 Kings 9:9: "hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil."
1 Kings 11:6: "And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after"
1 Kings 11:25: "the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel,"
1 Kings 13:33: "Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again"
1 Kings 14:10: "Therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off"
1 Kings 14:22: "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins"
1 Kings 15:26: "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin"
1 Kings 15:34: "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin"
1 Kings 16:7: "his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD,"
1 Kings 16:19: "which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way"
1 Kings 16:25: "But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all"
1 Kings 16:30: "the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all"
1 Kings 20:7: "how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives,"
1 Kings 21:20: "thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD."
1 Kings 21:21: "Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab"
1 Kings 21:25: "which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom"
1 Kings 21:29: "me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days:"
1 Kings 21:29: "bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon"
1 Kings 22:8: "prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said,"
1 Kings 22:18: "no good concerning me, but evil?"
1 Kings 22:23: "thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning"
1 Kings 22:52: "And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way"
2 Kings 2:19: "my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren."
2 Kings 3:2: "And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother:"
2 Kings 4:41: "that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot."
2 Kings 6:33: "him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what"
2 Kings 8:12: "Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel:"
2 Kings 8:18: "was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD."
2 Kings 8:27: "of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab:"
