רַע (ra) is
a Hebrew adjective
meaning evil. It appears
666 times
in 36 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H7451).
Also rendered
bad
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2191a)
Range of meaning (TWOT 2191a)evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity; adversity; wrong; bad; disagreeable, malignant; unpleasant; displeasing; bad of its kind; worse than; sad, unhappy; devise evil, device; unkind; wicked; affliction, displease, displeasure…
Strong's H7451רַע: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) KJV: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.).
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 2191: מֵרַעmēraʿ — be evil, bad; be displeasing, be sad, be injurious, wicked; suffer hurt; do an injury, hurt, do evil, wickedly; wickedness, spoil, make, be, good for nothing; do mischief, afflict, associate selves, break, displease…