רַע
raʻ · rah
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7489 (רָעַע);
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), [phrase] exceedingly, [idiom] great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), [phrase] mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, [phrase] not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › to see and know
The head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רַע above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
662 occurrences · 662 OT · 0 NT · 238 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- evil130 · 41%
- the evil25 · 8%
- that which was evil24 · 8%
- from evil13 · 4%
- an evil12 · 4%
- of evil11 · 3%
- and evil11 · 3%
- all the evil8 · 3%
- from his evil7 · 2%
- this evil7 · 2%
- my hurt6 · 2%
- of the wicked6 · 2%
- of the evil5 · 2%
- wickedness5 · 2%
- or bad5 · 2%
- him of the evil5 · 2%
- mischief5 · 2%
- and the evil5 · 2%
- into mischief4 · 1%
- to evil4 · 1%
- no evil4 · 1%
- me evil4 · 1%
- for evil4 · 1%
- the wickedness4 · 1%
- evils4 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.