Be evil
רָעַעStrong’s H7489raa (ra-a)
Appears in 104 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raa is the Hebrew word usually translated “evil-doers”, “it was displeasing” and “do evil”. It appears in 104 verses of the Old Testament.
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:”
Meaning
- To be bad, be evil(Qal) · (Hiphil)
- (fem) broken
How it's translated
- evil-doers 12
- and it was displeasing 10
- to do evil 6
- to do harm 4
- have you done harm 3
- displeasing 3
- it will be evil 3
- you do evil 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 16
- Jeremiah 14
- Isaiah 12
- Genesis 9
- Proverbs 8
- Numbers 5
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 21:11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
- Genesis 21:12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
- Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Genesis 38:10And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
All 104 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
רָעַע raa · be evil
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)
רֹעָה roah · to shatter
(fem) broken A grammatical form of ra.a (רָעַע "to shatter" H7489B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “evildoer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EVILDO'ER, noun
[evil and doer, from do.]
One who does evil; one who commits sin, crime, or any moral wrong.
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.