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רַע

rabad: harmfulHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdjective664 occurrences36 books623 verses

Definition

from H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Traditional renderings: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × 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.).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders רַע:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

664 total
  1. Isaiah 7:15בָּרָ֖ע · evil
    By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
  2. Isaiah 7:16בָּרָ֖ע · evil
    For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
  3. Isaiah 13:11רָעָ֔ה · [for its] evil
    I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
  4. Isaiah 31:2רָ֔ע · disaster
    Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
  5. Isaiah 32:7רָעִ֑ים · are destructive
    The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
  6. Isaiah 33:15בְּרָֽע׃ · evil
    He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
  7. Isaiah 45:7רָ֑ע · calamity
    I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
  8. Isaiah 47:10בְרָעָתֵ֗ךְ · in your wickedness
    You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
  9. Isaiah 47:11רָעָ֗ה · But disaster
    But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
  10. Isaiah 56:2רָֽע׃ס · evil
    Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
  11. Isaiah 57:1הָרָעָ֖ה · of evil
    The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.
  12. Isaiah 59:7לָרַ֣ע · to evil
    Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
  13. Isaiah 59:15מֵרָ֖ע · from evil
    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
  14. Isaiah 65:12הָרַע֙ · evil
    I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  15. Isaiah 66:4הָרַע֙ · evil
    So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  16. Jeremiah 1:14הָרָעָ֔ה · Disaster
    Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
  17. Jeremiah 1:16רָעָתָ֑ם · their wickedness
    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  18. Jeremiah 2:3רָעָ֛ה · disaster
    Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her were found guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 2:13רָע֖וֹת · evils
    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  20. Jeremiah 2:19רָעָתֵ֗ךְ · Your own evil; רַ֣ע · evil
    Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  21. Jeremiah 2:27רָֽעָתָם֙ · of trouble
    …say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
  22. Jeremiah 2:28רָעָתֶ֑ךָ · of trouble
    But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
  23. Jeremiah 2:33הָרָע֔וֹת · the most immoral of women
    How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
  24. Jeremiah 3:2וּבְרָעָתֵֽךְ׃ · and wickedness
    “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  25. Jeremiah 3:5הָרָע֖וֹת · all the evil
    Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
  26. Jeremiah 3:17הָרָֽע׃ס · of their evil
    At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  27. Jeremiah 4:6רָעָ֗ה · disaster
    Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.
  28. Jeremiah 4:14מֵרָעָ֤ה · the evil
    Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  29. Jeremiah 4:18רָעָתֵךְ֙ · is your punishment
    “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
  30. Jeremiah 5:12רָעָ֔ה · harm
    They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
  31. Jeremiah 5:28רָ֔ע · of the wicked
    They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
  32. Jeremiah 6:1רָעָ֛ה · disaster
    “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
  33. Jeremiah 6:7רָעָתָ֑הּ · her evil
    As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
  34. Jeremiah 6:19רָעָ֛ה · disaster
    Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.
  35. Jeremiah 6:29וְרָעִ֖ים · for the wicked
    The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
  36. Jeremiah 7:6לְרַ֥ע · to your own harm
    …if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
  37. Jeremiah 7:12רָעַ֖ת · the wickedness
    But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
  38. Jeremiah 7:24הָרָ֑ע · of their own evil
    Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  39. Jeremiah 7:30הָרַ֛ע · evil
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  40. Jeremiah 8:3הָֽרָעָ֖ה · evil
    And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  41. Jeremiah 8:6רָ֣עָת֔וֹ · wickedness
    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  42. Jeremiah 9:3מֵרָעָ֨ה · from evil; רָעָ֧ה׀ · evil
    “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
  43. Jeremiah 11:8הָרָ֑ע · of his evil
    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
  44. Jeremiah 11:11רָעָ֔ה · a disaster
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
  45. Jeremiah 11:12רָעָתָֽם׃ · of disaster
    Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
  46. Jeremiah 11:14רָעָתָֽם׃ס · of disaster
    As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
  47. Jeremiah 11:15רָעָתֵ֖כִי · you are wicked
    What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
  48. Jeremiah 11:17רָעָ֑ה · disaster
    The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”