H7489: רָעַע
râʻaʻ · pronounced raw-ah' · “be evil”
Definition
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
KJV translates it as: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), break (down, in pieces), [phrase] displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, [idiom] indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7489 is translated
- evil-doers ×14
- it was displeasing ×11
- do harm ×5
- do evil ×4
- it will be evil ×4
- you have done evil ×3
- have you done harm ×3
- you do evil ×2
- it be displeasing ×2
- he has done harm ×2
- i have done harm to ×2
- is displeasing ×2
Bible verses with H7489 (râʻaʻ)
Râʻaʻ appears in 104 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 19:7
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:9
And 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 21:11
And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
- Genesis 21:12
And 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 31:7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Genesis 38:10
And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
- Genesis 43:6
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- Genesis 44:5
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
- Genesis 48:17
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.
- Exodus 5:22
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
- Exodus 5:23
For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
- Exodus 21:8
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
- Leviticus 5:4
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
- Numbers 11:10
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
- Numbers 11:11
And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?
- Numbers 16:15
And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
- Numbers 20:15
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
- Numbers 22:34
And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
- Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
- Deuteronomy 15:10
Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
- Deuteronomy 26:6
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
- Deuteronomy 28:54
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
- Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
- Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
- Joshua 24:20
If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
All 104 references
- Judges 19:23
- Ruth 1:21
- 1 Samuel 8:6
- 1 Samuel 12:25
- 1 Samuel 18:8
- 1 Samuel 25:34
- 1 Samuel 26:21
- 2 Samuel 11:25
- 2 Samuel 11:27
- 2 Samuel 19:7
- 2 Samuel 20:6
- 1 Kings 14:9
- 1 Kings 16:25
- 1 Kings 17:20
- 2 Kings 21:11
- 1 Chronicles 16:22
- 1 Chronicles 21:7
- 1 Chronicles 21:17
- Nehemiah 2:3
- Nehemiah 2:10
- Nehemiah 13:8
- Job 8:20
- Job 20:26
- Job 34:24
- Psalms 2:9
- Psalms 15:4
- Psalms 22:16
- Psalms 26:5
- Psalms 27:2
- Psalms 37:1
- Psalms 37:8
- Psalms 37:9
- Psalms 44:2
- Psalms 64:2
- Psalms 74:3
- Psalms 92:11
- Psalms 94:16
- Psalms 105:15
- Psalms 106:32
- Psalms 119:115
- Proverbs 4:16
- Proverbs 11:15
- Proverbs 13:20
- Proverbs 17:4
- Proverbs 18:24
- Proverbs 24:8
- Proverbs 24:18
- Proverbs 24:19
- Isaiah 1:4
- Isaiah 1:16
- Isaiah 3:11
- Isaiah 8:9
- Isaiah 9:17
- Isaiah 11:9
- Isaiah 14:20
- Isaiah 24:19
- Isaiah 31:2
- Isaiah 41:23
- Isaiah 59:15
- Isaiah 65:25
- Jeremiah 4:22
- Jeremiah 7:26
- Jeremiah 10:5
- Jeremiah 11:16
- Jeremiah 13:23
- Jeremiah 15:12
- Jeremiah 16:12
- Jeremiah 20:13
- Jeremiah 23:14
- Jeremiah 25:6
- Jeremiah 25:29
- Jeremiah 31:28
- Jeremiah 38:9
- Jeremiah 40:4
- Jonah 4:1
- Micah 3:4
- Micah 4:6
- Zephaniah 1:12
- Zechariah 8:14