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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7562

רֶשַׁע

reshareh'-shah

wickedness

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

Concordance spelling: reshaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7562is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7562

a wrong (especially moral)

The King James renders it: iniquity, wicked(-ness).

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

resha is rendered "wickedness". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 9:27Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

Deuteronomy 9:27רִשְׁע֖וֹ

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

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 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

  • wickedness17
  • the wickedness3
  • from wickedness his2
  • according to wickedness its1
  • by wickedness1
  • from wickedness1
  • in wickedness1
  • wickedness his1
  • wickedness its1
  • wickedness our1
  • wickedness your1

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.

All 30, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 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

  • רֶ֑שַׁע8
  • רֶֽשַׁע׃3
  • בְּרֶ֗שַׁע1
  • בְּרֶ֑שַׁע1
  • הָרֶ֗שַׁע1
  • הָרֶ֔שַׁע1
  • הָרָֽשַׁע׃1
  • כְּרִשְׁע֖וֹ1
  • מֵרֶ֗שַׁע1
  • מֵֽרִשְׁע֔וֹ1
  • מֵֽרִשְׁע֑וֹ1
  • רֶ֥שַׁע1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular17HNcmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcmsc/Sp1bp
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp2ms

Deuteronomy

one use
  • Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

    Deuteronomy 9:27

    • רִשְׁע֖וֹrishonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: wickedness its

1 Samuel

one use
  • As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

    1 Samuel 24:13

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

Job

three uses
  • He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

    Job 34:8

    • רֶֽשַׁע׃resha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

    Job 34:10

    • מֵרֶ֗שַׁעmeresha'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: from wickedness
  • Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

    Job 35:8

    • רִשְׁעֶ֑ךָrishekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wickedness your

Psalms

six uses
  • For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

    Psalms 5:4

    • רֶ֥שַׁע׀resha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

    Psalms 10:15

    • רִשְׁע֥וֹrishonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: wickedness his
  • You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

    Psalms 45:7

    • רֶ֥שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

    Psalms 84:10

    • רֶֽשַׁע׃resha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

    Psalms 125:3

    • הָרֶ֗שַׁעharesha'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wickedness
  • Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

    Psalms 141:4

    • בְּרֶ֗שַׁעberesha'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in wickedness

Proverbs

five uses
  • For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

    Proverbs 4:17

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

    Proverbs 8:7

    • רֶֽשַׁע׃resha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

    Proverbs 10:2

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

    Proverbs 12:3

    • בְּרֶ֑שַׁעberesha'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: by wickedness
  • Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

    Proverbs 16:12

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

Ecclesiastes

four uses
  • Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

    Ecclesiastes 3:16

    • הָרֶ֔שַׁעharesha'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wickedness
    • הָרָֽשַׁע׃harasha'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the wickedness
  • I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

    Ecclesiastes 7:25

    • רֶ֣שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

    Ecclesiastes 8:8

    • רֶ֖שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

Isaiah

two uses
  • You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

    Isaiah 58:4

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

    Isaiah 58:6

    • רֶ֔שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

Jeremiah

one use
  • We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

    Jeremiah 14:20

    • רִשְׁעֵ֖נוּrishenunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: wickedness our

Ezekiel

four uses
  • But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

    Ezekiel 3:19

    • מֵֽרִשְׁע֔וֹmerishopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from wickedness his
  • Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

    Ezekiel 7:11

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

    Ezekiel 31:11

    • כְּרִשְׁע֖וֹkerishopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: according to wickedness its
  • Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

    Ezekiel 33:12

    • מֵֽרִשְׁע֑וֹmerishopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from wickedness his

Hosea

one use
  • You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

    Hosea 10:13

    • רֶ֛שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

Micah

two uses
  • Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

    Micah 6:10

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness
  • Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

    Micah 6:11

    • רֶ֑שַׁעresha'noun · masculine singulartagged: wickedness

The letters

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.

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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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