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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:

Psalms 35:4: "back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt."
Psalms 35:12: "They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul."
Psalms 35:26: "and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify"
Psalms 36:4: "good; he abhorreth not evil."
Psalms 37:19: "They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied."
Psalms 37:27: "Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell forevermore."
Psalms 38:12: "my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits"
Psalms 38:20: "They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good"
Psalms 40:12: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities"
Psalms 40:14: "backward and put to shame that wish me evil."
Psalms 41:1: "the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble."
Psalms 41:5: "Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?"
Psalms 41:7: "against me: against me do they devise my hurt."
Psalms 49:5: "Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?"
Psalms 50:19: "Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit."
Psalms 51:4: "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,"
Psalms 52:1: "of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually."
Psalms 52:3: "Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness."
Psalms 54:5: "He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth."
Psalms 55:15: "quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among"
Psalms 56:5: "all their thoughts are against me for evil."
Psalms 64:5: "They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who"
Psalms 70:2: "backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt."
Psalms 71:13: "with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt."
Psalms 71:20: "Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up"
Psalms 71:24: "for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt."
Psalms 73:8: "They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily."
Psalms 78:49: "and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels"
Psalms 88:3: "For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave."
Psalms 90:15: "wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil."
Psalms 91:10: "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling."
Psalms 94:13: "That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked."
Psalms 94:23: "them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off."
Psalms 97:10: "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth"
Psalms 101:4: "from me: I will not know a wicked"
Psalms 107:26: "again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble."
Psalms 107:34: "A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell"
Psalms 107:39: "Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow."
Psalms 109:5: "And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love."
Psalms 109:20: "from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul."
Psalms 112:7: "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting"
Psalms 119:101: "I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep"
Psalms 121:7: "The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul."
Psalms 140:1: "of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent"
Psalms 140:2: "Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war."
Psalms 140:11: "an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man"
Psalms 141:4: "Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works"
Psalms 141:5: "for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."
Psalms 144:10: "David his servant from the hurtful sword."
Proverbs 1:16: "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."









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