Strong's Hebrew · H7489
רָעַע
râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
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.
Definition
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 102 times in Scripture
“Is this not the cup my master drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is wicked!’””
“But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
““Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?””
““Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.”
“So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?”
“And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.”
“What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.”
“Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.”
“Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.””
“When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).