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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. Leviticus 27:33לָרַ֖ע · bad
    He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
  2. Numbers 11:1רַ֖ע · about their hardship
    Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
  3. Numbers 11:15בְּרָעָתִֽי׃פ · my own wretchedness
    If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
  4. Numbers 13:19רָעָ֑ה · bad
    Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?
  5. Numbers 14:27הָֽרָעָה֙ · wicked
    “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
  6. Numbers 14:35הָֽרָעָה֙ · wicked
    I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
  7. Numbers 14:37רָעָ֑ה · the bad
    …those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.
  8. Numbers 20:5הָרָ֖ע · wretched
    Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
  9. Numbers 24:13רָעָ֖ה · bad
    …that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I must speak whatever the LORD says.
  10. Numbers 32:13הָרַ֖ע · evil
    The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
  11. Numbers 35:23רָעָתֽוֹ׃ · to harm him
    …or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
  12. Deuteronomy 1:35הָרָ֖ע · evil
    “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  13. Deuteronomy 1:39וָרָ֔ע · from evil
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  14. Deuteronomy 4:25הָרַ֛ע · evil
    After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
  15. Deuteronomy 6:22וְרָעִ֧ים׀ · and devastating
    Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
  16. Deuteronomy 7:15הָרָעִ֜ים · of the terrible
    And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
  17. Deuteronomy 9:18הָרַ֛ע · what was evil
    Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
  18. Deuteronomy 13:5הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  19. Deuteronomy 13:11הָרָ֛ע · a wicked
    Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
  20. Deuteronomy 15:21רָ֑ע · serious
    But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
  21. Deuteronomy 17:1רָ֑ע · serious
    You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
  22. Deuteronomy 17:2הָרַ֛ע · evil
    If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
  23. Deuteronomy 17:5הָרָ֤ע · evil
    …you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
  24. Deuteronomy 17:7הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  25. Deuteronomy 17:12הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  26. Deuteronomy 19:19הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    …you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  27. Deuteronomy 19:20הָרָ֛ע · evil
    Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
  28. Deuteronomy 21:21הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
  29. Deuteronomy 22:14רָ֑ע · a bad
    …and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
  30. Deuteronomy 22:19רָ֔ע · a bad
    They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  31. Deuteronomy 22:21הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    …she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  32. Deuteronomy 22:22הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
  33. Deuteronomy 22:24הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    …you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  34. Deuteronomy 23:9רָֽע׃ · wicked
    When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
  35. Deuteronomy 24:7הָרָ֖ע · the evil
    If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
  36. Deuteronomy 28:35רָ֗ע · with painful
    The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
  37. Deuteronomy 28:59רָעִ֖ים · and terrible
    He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
  38. Deuteronomy 29:21לְרָעָ֔ה · for disaster
    …and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
  39. Deuteronomy 30:15הָרָֽע׃ · and disaster
    See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.
  40. Deuteronomy 31:17רָע֥וֹת · troubles; הָרָע֥וֹת · disasters
    On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
  41. Deuteronomy 31:18הָרָעָ֖ה · the evil
    And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
  42. Deuteronomy 31:21רָע֣וֹת · troubles
    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
  43. Deuteronomy 31:29הָֽרָעָה֙ · disaster; הָרַע֙ · evil
    For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
  44. Deuteronomy 32:23רָע֑וֹת · disasters
    I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
  45. Joshua 23:15הָרָ֔ע · the calamity He has threatened
    But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
  46. Joshua 24:15רַ֨ע · it is unpleasing
    But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
  47. Judges 2:11הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
  48. Judges 2:15לְרָעָ֔ה · to bring calamity
    Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.