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:
Proverbs 21:10: "The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes."
Proverbs 21:12: "of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness."
Proverbs 22:3: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."
Proverbs 23:6: "thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:"
Proverbs 24:1: "Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with"
Proverbs 24:16: "times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
Proverbs 24:20: "there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out."
Proverbs 25:20: "so is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart."
Proverbs 26:23: "Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross."
Proverbs 26:26: "Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation."
Proverbs 27:12: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished."
Proverbs 28:5: " Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand"
Proverbs 28:10: "Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright"
Proverbs 28:14: "but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief."
Proverbs 28:22: "He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that"
Proverbs 29:6: "In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice."
Proverbs 31:12: "She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life."
Ecclesiastes 1:13: "under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons"
Ecclesiastes 2:17: "that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all"
Ecclesiastes 2:21: "it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil."
Ecclesiastes 4:3: "who hath not seen the evil work that is done"
Ecclesiastes 4:8: "This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail."
Ecclesiastes 5:1: "for they consider not that they do evil."
Ecclesiastes 5:13: "There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept"
Ecclesiastes 5:13: "namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
Ecclesiastes 5:14: "But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing"
Ecclesiastes 5:16: "And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came,"
Ecclesiastes 6:1: "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common"
Ecclesiastes 6:2: "a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease."
Ecclesiastes 7:14: "be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set"
Ecclesiastes 7:15: "and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness."
Ecclesiastes 8:3: "out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth"
Ecclesiastes 8:5: "the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth"
Ecclesiastes 8:6: "time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon"
Ecclesiastes 8:9: "one man ruleth over another to his own hurt."
Ecclesiastes 8:11: "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore"
Ecclesiastes 8:11: "of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil."
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely"
Ecclesiastes 9:3: "This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that"
Ecclesiastes 9:3: "of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after"
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught"
Ecclesiastes 9:12: "in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth"
Ecclesiastes 10:5: "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth"
Ecclesiastes 10:13: "is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness."
Ecclesiastes 11:2: "thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 11:10: "sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for"
Ecclesiastes 12:1: "in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not,"
Ecclesiastes 12:14: "whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
Song of Solomon 6:7: "As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks."
Isaiah 3:9: "unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil"
