רָשַׁע
râshaʻ · raw-shah'
to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate
- to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong
- by implication, to disturb, violate
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- 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 consume, to destroy › to see and know
The head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָשַׁע 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
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall condemn2 · 7%
- and condemn2 · 7%
- and have not wickedly departed2 · 7%
- if i be wicked2 · 7%
- we have done wickedly2 · 7%
- himself, he vexed1 · 3%
- condemning1 · 3%
- we have committed wickedness1 · 3%
- and have dealt wickedly1 · 3%
- very wickedly1 · 3%
- to do wickedly1 · 3%
- but we have done wickedly1 · 3%
- do not condemn1 · 3%
- that i am not wicked1 · 3%
- condemneth1 · 3%
- and yet had condemned1 · 3%
- will not do wickedly1 · 3%
- and wilt thou condemn1 · 3%
- who then can make trouble1 · 3%
- wilt thou condemn1 · 3%
- nor condemn1 · 3%
- will he condemn1 · 3%
- and he that condemneth1 · 3%
- wicked1 · 3%
- me; who is he that shall condemn1 · 3%
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.