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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7455

רֹעַ

roaro'-ah

evil

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: rôaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7455is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7455

badness (as marring), physically or morally

The King James renders it: [idiom] be so bad, badness, ([idiom] be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

roa is rendered "evil". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:19After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!

Genesis 41:19לָרֹֽעַ׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's nineteen uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • wickedness of9
  • from badness4
  • and from wickedness of2
  • and according to wickedness of1
  • by sadness of1
  • sadness of1
  • to the badness1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • רֹ֥עַ6
  • רֹ֣עַ3
  • בְרֹ֥עַ1
  • וּכְרֹ֪עַ1
  • וּמֵרֹ֖עַ1
  • וּמֵרֹ֣עַ1
  • לָרֹֽעַ׃1
  • מֵרֹ֑עַ1
  • מֵרֹֽעַ׃1
  • מֵרֹֽעַ׃ ס1
  • מֵרֹֽעַ׃ פ1
  • רֹ֣עַֽ1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)10HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/R/Ncmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa

Genesis

one use
  • After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!

    Genesis 41:19

    • לָרֹֽעַ׃laroa'preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the badness

Deuteronomy

one use
  • The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

    Deuteronomy 28:20

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

1 Samuel

one use
  • Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

    1 Samuel 17:28

    • רֹ֣עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

Nehemiah

one use
  • so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear

    Nehemiah 2:2

    • רֹ֣עַֽroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sadness of

Psalms

one use
  • Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

    Psalms 28:4

    • וּכְרֹ֪עַukheroa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and according to wickedness of

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

    Ecclesiastes 7:3

    • בְרֹ֥עַveroa'preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: by sadness of

Isaiah

one use
  • Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

    Isaiah 1:16

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

Jeremiah

eleven uses
  • Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

    Jeremiah 4:4

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of
  • O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

    Jeremiah 21:12

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of
  • Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 23:2

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of
  • But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

    Jeremiah 23:22

    • וּמֵרֹ֖עַumeroa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from wickedness of
  • One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

    Jeremiah 24:2

    • מֵרֹֽעַ׃ סmeroa'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from badness
  • “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”

    Jeremiah 24:3

    • מֵרֹֽעַ׃ פmeroa'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from badness
  • But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.

    Jeremiah 24:8

    • מֵרֹ֑עַmeroa'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from badness
  • The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

    Jeremiah 25:5

    • וּמֵרֹ֣עַumeroa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and from wickedness of
  • Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

    Jeremiah 26:3

    • רֹ֥עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of
  • this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

    Jeremiah 29:17

    • מֵרֹֽעַ׃meroa'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from badness
  • So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

    Jeremiah 44:22

    • רֹ֣עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

Hosea

one use
  • All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

    Hosea 9:15

    • רֹ֣עַroa'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wickedness of

The letters

Gematria 270

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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