Evil-merodach
אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְStrong’s H0192evil merodakh (e-vil me-ro-dakh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Evil merodakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “evil-” and “merodach”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.25.27
How it's translated
- evil- 2
- merodach 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
אֱוִיל מְרֹדַךְ evil merodakh · Evil-merodach
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.25.27 § Evil Merodach = "man of Merodach" son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Neo-Babylonian empire, 562-560 BC
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “evil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'VIL, adjective
e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.]
- Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief.“Some evil beast hath devoured him” Genesis 37:20
- Having bad qualities of a moral kind; wicked; corrupt; perverse; wrong; as evil thoughts; evil deeds; evil speaking; an evil generation.
- Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
All definitions and other forms of “evil”
E'VIL, noun
evil is natural or moral. Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.
- Misfortune; mischief; injury.“There shall no evil befall thee” Psalms 91:10“A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself” Proverbs 22:3
- Depravity; corruption of heart, or disposition to commit wickedness; malignity.“The heart of the sons of men is full of evil” Ecclesiastes 9:3
- Malady; as the king's evil or scrophula.
E'VIL, adverb
[generally contracted to ill.]
- Not well; not with justice or propriety; unsuitable.
- Not virtuously; not innocently.
- Not happily; unfortunately.
- Injuriously; not kindly.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.