Wickedness
רִשְׁעָהStrong’s H7564rishah (rish-ah)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rishah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wickedness”, “wickedness of” and “from wickedness his”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.”
Meaning
- Wickedness, guiltwickedness (in civil relations) · wickedness (of enemies) · wickedness (ethical and religious)
How it's translated
- wickedness 5
- and wickedness of 2
- from wickedness his 2
- and in wickedness of 1
- in wickedness of 1
- wickedness his 1
- and by wickedness his 1
- and wickedness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Deuteronomy 3
- Malachi 3
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 9:4Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 25:2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
- Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
- Proverbs 13:6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Hebrew dictionary
רִשְׁעָה rishah · wickedness
1) wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (in civil relations) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wickedness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WICKEDNESS, noun
Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.
- “What wickedness is this that is done among you?” Judges 20:12“Their inward part is very wickedness” Psalms 5:9“In heart ye work wickedness 8” Psalms 58:2
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.