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רַע

ra

rah

Strong's 1890 spelling: raʻ

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

Rendered in the KJV as

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.).

  • 662
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 20 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 197
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 197

  • הָרַ֖ע36
  • רָ֑ע32
  • רָֽע׃16
  • רָעָ֖ה15
  • רָעָ֑ה15
  • רָעָ֔ה13
  • רָעָֽה׃13
  • הָרָ֖ע12
  • הָרָעָ֖ה12
  • הָרַ֛ע10
  • רָעָ֣ה10
  • הָרַע֙8

and 185 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 119

  • the evil109
  • evil98
  • harm20
  • bad19
  • calamity19
  • from evil17
  • trouble13
  • the calamity11
  • the harm10
  • and evil9
  • [the] evil of6
  • [is] an evil5

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 46

  • adjective · masculine singular101
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular85
  • noun · feminine singular81
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular46
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular27
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular21
  • adjective · masculine plural17
  • adjective · feminine singular15
  • preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular10
  • noun · feminine plural8
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular7
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HAamsa · 101
  • HTd/Aamsa · 85
  • HNcfsa · 81
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 46
  • HR/Aamsa · 27
  • HR/Ncfsa · 21
  • HAampa · 17
  • HAafsa · 15
  • HRd/Aamsa · 10
  • HNcfpa · 8
  • HNcfsc · 7
  • HNcfsc/Sp1bs · 7

The first 500 of 662, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Proverbs carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis36 occurrences
Exodus8 occurrences
Leviticus6 occurrences
Numbers10 occurrences
Deuteronomy35 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
Judges19 occurrences
1 Samuel31 occurrences
2 Samuel15 occurrences
1 Kings27 occurrences
2 Kings32 occurrences
1 Chronicles4 occurrences
2 Chronicles21 occurrences
Nehemiah13 occurrences
Job15 occurrences
Psalms64 occurrences
Proverbs68 occurrences
Ecclesiastes32 occurrences
Isaiah19 occurrences
Jeremiah44 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).