Strong's #7489: ra`a` (pronounced raw-ah')
a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally):--afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
râ‛a‛
1) to be bad, be evil
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be displeasing
1a2) to be sad
1a3) to be injurious, be evil
1a4) to be wicked, be evil (ethically)
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to do an injury or hurt
1b2) to do evil or wickedly
1b3) mischief (participle)
2) to break, shatter
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to break
2a2) broken (participle)
2a3) to be broken
2b) (Hithpolel) to be broken, be broken in pieces, be broken asunder
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2191, 2192
Usage:
This word is used 98 times:
Psalms 37:8: "and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil."
Psalms 37:9: "For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."
Psalms 44:2: "the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out."
Psalms 64:2: "Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:"
Psalms 74:3: "desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary."
Psalms 92:11: "my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against"
Psalms 94:16: "Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers"
Psalms 105:15: "mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm."
Psalms 119:115: "Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God."
Proverbs 4:16: "they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless"
Proverbs 11:15: "He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure."
Proverbs 17:4: " A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to"
Proverbs 18:24: "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."
Proverbs 24:8: "He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person."
Proverbs 24:18: "Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from"
Proverbs 24:19: "Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;"
Isaiah 1:4: "laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken"
Isaiah 1:16: "from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;"
Isaiah 8:9: " Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves,"
Isaiah 9:17: "and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh"
Isaiah 11:9: "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for"
Isaiah 14:20: "and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."
Isaiah 24:19: "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly."
Isaiah 24:19: "The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly."
Isaiah 31:2: "but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity."
Isaiah 41:23: "are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together."
Isaiah 59:15: "from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that"
Isaiah 65:25: "shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy"
Jeremiah 4:22: "understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
Jeremiah 7:26: "but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers."
Jeremiah 10:5: "afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in"
Jeremiah 11:16: "fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken."
Jeremiah 13:23: "also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Jeremiah 15:12: "Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?"
Jeremiah 16:12: "And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one"
Jeremiah 20:13: "the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers."
Jeremiah 23:14: "in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness:"
Jeremiah 25:6: "them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt."
Jeremiah 25:29: "lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by"
Jeremiah 31:28: "and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build,"
Jeremiah 38:9: "the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done"
Jeremiah 40:4: "come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee"
Jonah 4:1: " But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry."
Micah 3:4: "them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings."
Micah 4:6: "and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;"
Micah 5:6: " And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances"
Zephaniah 1:12: "The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil."
Zechariah 8:14: "of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith"
