Strong's Hebrew · H7489
H7489 râʻaʻ
רָעַע
raw-ah'
be evil
râʻaʻ appears 102 times in Scripture, including Genesis 19:9 and Exodus 5:22. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
In the King James Version
afflict, associate selves (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
