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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. 2 Samuel 12:9הָרַע֮ · evil
    Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
  2. 2 Samuel 12:11רָעָה֙ · adversity
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  3. 2 Samuel 12:18רָעָֽה׃
    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
  4. 2 Samuel 13:16הָרָעָ֤ה · wrong
    “No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
  5. 2 Samuel 13:22לְמֵרָ֣ע · or bad
    And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.
  6. 2 Samuel 14:17וְהָרָ֔ע · and evil
    And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
  7. 2 Samuel 15:14הָ֣רָעָ֔ה · disaster
    And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
  8. 2 Samuel 16:8בְּרָ֣עָתֶ֔ךָ · you have come to ruin
    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
  9. 2 Samuel 17:14הָרָעָֽה׃ס · disaster
    Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.
  10. 2 Samuel 18:32לְרָעָֽה׃ס · to harm you
    The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like that young man.”
  11. 2 Samuel 19:7הָרָעָה֙ · the adversity
    Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”
  12. 2 Samuel 19:35לְרָ֗ע · and what is not
    I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
  13. 2 Samuel 24:16הָ֣רָעָ֔ה · the calamity
    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  14. 1 Kings 1:52רָעָ֥ה · evil
    And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”
  15. 1 Kings 2:44הָרָעָ֗ה · the evil; רָעָתְךָ֖ · your evil
    The king also said, “You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.
  16. 1 Kings 3:9לְרָ֑ע · and evil
    Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
  17. 1 Kings 5:4רָֽע׃
    But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
  18. 1 Kings 9:9הָרָעָ֖ה · disaster
    And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
  19. 1 Kings 11:6הָרַ֖ע · evil
    So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
  20. 1 Kings 11:25הָרָעָ֖ה · the trouble
    Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.
  21. 1 Kings 13:33הָרָעָ֑ה · of his evil
    Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
  22. 1 Kings 14:10רָעָה֙ · disaster
    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
  23. 1 Kings 14:22הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
  24. 1 Kings 15:26הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  25. 1 Kings 15:34הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
  26. 1 Kings 16:7הָרָעָ֣ה׀ · the evil
    Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
  27. 1 Kings 16:19הָרַ֖ע · evil
    …because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
  28. 1 Kings 16:25הָרַ֖ע · evil
    But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
  29. 1 Kings 16:30הָרַ֖ע · evil
    However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
  30. 1 Kings 20:7רָעָ֖ה · trouble
    Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”
  31. 1 Kings 21:20הָרַ֖ע · evil
    When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
  32. 1 Kings 21:21רָעָ֔ה · calamity
    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
  33. 1 Kings 21:25הָרַ֖ע · evil
    (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
  34. 1 Kings 21:29הָֽרָעָה֙ · the calamity; הָרָעָ֖ה · [it]
    “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
  35. 1 Kings 22:8רָ֔ע · bad
    The king of Israel answered, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, but only bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.
  36. 1 Kings 22:18רָֽע׃ · bad
    Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he never prophesies good for me, but only bad?”
  37. 1 Kings 22:23רָעָֽה׃ · disaster
    So you see, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has pronounced disaster against you.”
  38. 1 Kings 22:52הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
  39. 2 Kings 2:19רָעִ֖ים · [is] bad
    Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
  40. 2 Kings 3:2הָרַע֙ · evil
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.
  41. 2 Kings 4:41רָ֖ע · harmful
    Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
  42. 2 Kings 6:33הָֽרָעָה֙ · calamity [is]
    While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
  43. 2 Kings 8:12רָעָ֗ה · the evil
    “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
  44. 2 Kings 8:18הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  45. 2 Kings 8:27הָרַ֛ע · evil
    And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  46. 2 Kings 13:2הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
  47. 2 Kings 13:11הָרַ֖ע · evil
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit, but he walked in them.
  48. 2 Kings 14:10בְּרָעָ֔ה · trouble
    You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”