רַע
ra
evil
Strong's H7451AdjectiveHebrewTWOT 2191a

רַע (ra) is a Hebrew adjective meaning evil. It appears 666 times in 36 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H7451).

Also rendered

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…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

רַע noun, masculine: evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity

רַע adjective: bad, evil

Strong's H7451 רַע: 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: מֵרַע mēraʿ — 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…

See it in Scripture

Genesis 2:9Exodus 5:19Leviticus 26:6

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