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:
Ezra 9:13: "all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing"
Nehemiah 1:3: "there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down,"
Nehemiah 2:1: "it unto the king. Now I had not been formerly sad in his presence."
Nehemiah 2:2: "said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this"
Nehemiah 2:10: "the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man"
Nehemiah 2:17: "I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem"
Nehemiah 6:2: "But they thought to do me mischief."
Nehemiah 6:13: "so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach"
Nehemiah 9:28: "But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies,"
Nehemiah 9:35: "before them, neither turned they from their wicked works."
Nehemiah 13:7: "And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah,"
Nehemiah 13:17: "of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye"
Nehemiah 13:18: "all this evil upon us, and upon this city?"
Nehemiah 13:27: "all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange"
Esther 7:6: "The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid"
Esther 7:7: "to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against"
Esther 8:3: "him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that"
Esther 8:6: "how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?"
Esther 9:2: "to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for"
Esther 9:25: "he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against"
Job 1:1: "and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."
Job 1:8: "and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?"
Job 2:3: "and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still"
Job 2:7: "the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole"
Job 2:10: "at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not"
Job 2:11: "of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one"
Job 5:19: "troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch"
Job 20:12: "Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;"
Job 21:30: "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath."
Job 22:5: "Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?"
Job 28:28: "that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding."
Job 30:26: "When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came"
Job 31:29: "of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found"
Job 35:12: "giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men."
Job 42:11: "him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon"
Psalms 5:4: "that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell"
Psalms 7:4: "If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)"
Psalms 7:9: "Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God"
Psalms 10:6: "I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity."
Psalms 10:15: "Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none."
Psalms 15:3: "his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach"
Psalms 21:11: "For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able"
Psalms 23:4: "of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod"
Psalms 27:5: "For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide"
Psalms 28:3: "peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts."
Psalms 34:13: "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."
Psalms 34:14: "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue"
Psalms 34:16: "The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth."
Psalms 34:19: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all."
Psalms 34:21: " Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate."
