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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:

2 Kings 13:2: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam"
2 Kings 13:11: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all"
2 Kings 14:10: "of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah"
2 Kings 14:24: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all"
2 Kings 15:9: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed"
2 Kings 15:18: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days"
2 Kings 15:24: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins"
2 Kings 15:28: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins"
2 Kings 17:2: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel"
2 Kings 17:11: "carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke"
2 Kings 17:13: "the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments"
2 Kings 17:17: "and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
2 Kings 21:2: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD"
2 Kings 21:6: "and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
2 Kings 21:9: "seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD"
2 Kings 21:12: "of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that"
2 Kings 21:15: "Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger,"
2 Kings 21:16: "beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing"
2 Kings 21:20: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did."
2 Kings 22:16: "the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon"
2 Kings 22:20: "shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon"
2 Kings 23:32: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done."
2 Kings 23:37: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done."
2 Kings 24:9: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done."
2 Kings 24:19: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done."
1 Chronicles 2:3: "And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew"
1 Chronicles 4:10: "might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God"
1 Chronicles 7:23: "Beriah, because it went evil with his house."
1 Chronicles 21:15: "beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough,"
2 Chronicles 7:14: "and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I"
2 Chronicles 7:22: "them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon"
2 Chronicles 12:14: "And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek"
2 Chronicles 18:7: "good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah"
2 Chronicles 18:17: "prophesy good unto me, but evil?"
2 Chronicles 18:22: "thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against"
2 Chronicles 20:9: "If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine,"
2 Chronicles 21:6: "of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 21:19: "of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore"
2 Chronicles 22:4: "Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they"
2 Chronicles 25:19: "at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with"
2 Chronicles 29:6: "our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken"
2 Chronicles 33:2: "But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD"
2 Chronicles 33:6: "and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger."
2 Chronicles 33:9: "of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD"
2 Chronicles 33:22: "But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father:"
2 Chronicles 34:24: "the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon"
2 Chronicles 34:28: "shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon"
2 Chronicles 36:5: "eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God."
2 Chronicles 36:9: "days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 36:12: "And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before"









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