# רָעַע (raa)

Israeli respelling: ra-a. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7489. 99 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

King James renderings: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), break (down, in pieces), [phrase] displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) il…

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/raa-h7489

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/7) — And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- [Genesis 19:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/9) — And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse wi…
- [Genesis 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/11) — And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.
- [Genesis 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/12) — And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath sai…
- [Genesis 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/7) — And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- [Genesis 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/10) — And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
- [Genesis 43:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/43/6) — And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
- [Genesis 44:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/5) — Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
- [Genesis 48:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/48/17) — And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to r…
- [Exodus 5:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/22) — And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, LORD, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?
- [Exodus 5:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/23) — For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
- [Leviticus 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/4) — Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it b…
- [Numbers 11:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/10) — Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatl…
- [Numbers 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/11/11) — And Moses said unto the LORD, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou laye…
- [Numbers 16:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/15) — And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt…
- [Numbers 20:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/20/15) — How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
- [Numbers 22:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/22/34) — And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it di…
- [Deuteronomy 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/9) — Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil ag…
- [Deuteronomy 15:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/10) — Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God sh…
- [Deuteronomy 26:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/6) — And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
- [Deuteronomy 28:54](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/54) — So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, an…
- [Deuteronomy 28:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/56) — The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tendern…
- [Joshua 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/20) — If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
- [Judges 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/23) — And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing…
- [Ruth 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/1/21) — I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and t…
- [1 Samuel 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/8/6) — But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
- [1 Samuel 12:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/25) — But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
- [1 Samuel 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/8) — And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascri…
- [1 Samuel 25:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/34) — For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me…
- [1 Samuel 26:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/21) — Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day:…
- [2 Samuel 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/25) — Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well a…
- [2 Samuel 11:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/11/27) — And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that Da…
- [2 Samuel 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/19/7) — Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry…
- [1 Kings 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/9) — But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger,…
- [1 Kings 16:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/16/25) — But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
- [1 Kings 17:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/17/20) — And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
- [2 Kings 21:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/11) — Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him,…
- [1 Chronicles 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/22) — Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
- [1 Chronicles 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/7) — And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
- [1 Chronicles 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/17) — And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as f…
- [Nehemiah 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/3) — And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchre…
- [Nehemiah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/10) — When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to se…
- [Nehemiah 13:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/8) — And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
- [Job 8:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/20) — Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
- [Job 34:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/24) — He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
- [Psalms 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/2/9) — Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
- [Psalms 15:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/15/4) — In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
- [Psalms 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/16) — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- [Psalms 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/26/5) — I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
- [Psalms 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/2) — When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- [Psalms 37:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/1) — Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- [Psalms 37:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/8) — Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
- [Psalms 37:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/9) — For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
- [Psalms 44:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/2) — How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
- [Psalms 64:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/2) — Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- [Psalms 74:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/3) — Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
- [Psalms 92:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/11) — Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
- [Psalms 94:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/16) — Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
- [Psalms 105:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/15) — Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
- [Psalms 106:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/32) — They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
- [Psalms 119:115](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/115) — Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
- [Proverbs 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/16) — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- [Proverbs 11:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/15) — He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
- [Proverbs 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/20) — He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- [Proverbs 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/4) — A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- [Proverbs 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/18/24) — A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- [Proverbs 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/8) — He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
- [Proverbs 24:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/18) — Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
- [Proverbs 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/19) — Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
- [Isaiah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/4) — Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have p…
- [Isaiah 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/16) — Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
- [Isaiah 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/9) — Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall b…
- [Isaiah 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/17) — Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypoc…
- [Isaiah 11:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/11/9) — They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the…
- [Isaiah 14:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/20) — Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never…
- [Isaiah 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/19) — The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
- [Isaiah 31:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/2) — Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against…
- [Isaiah 41:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/23) — Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behol…
- [Isaiah 59:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/15) — Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no jud…
- [Isaiah 65:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/25) — The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall…
- [Jeremiah 4:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/22) — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, bu…
- [Jeremiah 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/26) — Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
- [Jeremiah 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/5) — They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot…
- [Jeremiah 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/16) — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and…
- [Jeremiah 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/23) — Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- [Jeremiah 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/15/12) — Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
- [Jeremiah 16:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/12) — And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken…
- [Jeremiah 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/13) — Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
- [Jeremiah 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/14) — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of…
- [Jeremiah 25:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/6) — And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you…
- [Jeremiah 25:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/29) — For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for…
- [Jeremiah 31:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/28) — And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to…
- [Jeremiah 38:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/9) — My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he…
- [Jeremiah 40:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/40/4) — And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon,…
- [Jonah 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/1) — But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
- [Micah 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/4) — Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved thems…
- [Micah 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/4/6) — In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
- [Zephaniah 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/12) — And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that…
- [Zechariah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/8/14) — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repent…