רֹעַ
rôaʻ · ro'-ah
badness (as marring), physically or morally
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7489 (רָעַע);
badness (as marring), physically or morally
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] be so bad, badness, ([idiom] be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.
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 רֹעַ 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
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the evil4 · 21%
- they are so evil3 · 16%
- and from the evil2 · 11%
- for badness1 · 5%
- of the wickedness1 · 5%
- and the naughtiness1 · 5%
- this is nothing else but sorrow1 · 5%
- and according to the wickedness1 · 5%
- for by the sadness1 · 5%
- the evil1 · 5%
- upon you the evil1 · 5%
- they were so bad1 · 5%
- them: for the wickedness1 · 5%
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.