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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7564

רִשְׁעָה

rishahrish-aw'

wickedness

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

Concordance spelling: rishʻâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7564is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7564

wrong (especially moral)

The King James renders it: fault, wickedly(-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

rishah is rendered "wickedness". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 9:4When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:4וּבְרִשְׁעַת֙

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

Where the word stands

Five of the word's fifteen uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 33 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

  • and wickedness of2
  • from wickedness his2
  • of wickedness2
  • wickedness2
  • and by wickedness his1
  • and in wickedness of1
  • and wickedness1
  • in wickedness of1
  • the wickedness1
  • to wickedness1
  • wickedness his1

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.

רִשְׁיוֹןrishyonpermissionUses1

The words it stands beside

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 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

  • רִשְׁעָ֔ה3
  • בְּרִשְׁעַ֣ת׀1
  • הָרִשְׁעָ֔ה1
  • וּבְרִשְׁעַת֙1
  • וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹ1
  • וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה1
  • וְרִשְׁעַ֥ת1
  • וְרִשְׁעַ֤ת1
  • לְרִשְׁעָה֙1
  • מֵֽרִשְׁעָתוֹ֙1
  • מֵֽרִשְׁעָת֔וֹ1
  • רִשְׁעָה֙1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncfsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa

Deuteronomy

three uses
  • When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

    Deuteronomy 9:4

    • וּבְרִשְׁעַת֙uverishatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and in wickedness of
  • It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    Deuteronomy 9:5

    • בְּרִשְׁעַ֣ת׀berishatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in wickedness of
  • If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

    Deuteronomy 25:2

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

Proverbs

two uses
  • The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

    Proverbs 11:5

    • וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹuverishatoconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and by wickedness his
  • Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.

    Proverbs 13:6

    • וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗הverishahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and wickedness

Isaiah

one use
  • For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

    Isaiah 9:18

    • רִשְׁעָ֔הrishahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness

Ezekiel

five uses
  • But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

    Ezekiel 5:6

    • לְרִשְׁעָה֙lerishahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to wickedness
  • The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

    Ezekiel 18:20

    • וְרִשְׁעַ֥תverishatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wickedness of
  • But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

    Ezekiel 18:27

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

    • וְרִשְׁעַ֤תverishatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and wickedness of
  • But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

    Ezekiel 33:19

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

Zechariah

one use
  • “This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

    Zechariah 5:8

    • הָרִשְׁעָ֔הharishahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the wickedness

Malachi

three uses
  • Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.

    Malachi 1:4

    • רִשְׁעָ֔הrishahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wickedness
  • So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

    Malachi 3:15

    • רִשְׁעָ֔הrishahnoun · feminine singulartagged: of wickedness
  • “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

    Malachi 4:1

    • רִשְׁעָה֙rishahnoun · feminine singulartagged: of 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.

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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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