# רֹעַ (roa)

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

Strong’s H7455. 19 Old Testament occurrences.

badness (as marring), physically or morally

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

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/roa-h7455

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 41:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/19) — And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt…
- [Deuteronomy 28:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/20) — The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, a…
- [1 Samuel 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/17/28) — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou do…
- [Nehemiah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/2/2) — Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was…
- [Psalms 28:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/4) — Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to…
- [Ecclesiastes 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/7/3) — Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
- [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;
- [Jeremiah 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/4) — Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury co…
- [Jeremiah 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/12) — O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, l…
- [Jeremiah 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/2) — Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and…
- [Jeremiah 23:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/22) — But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and…
- [Jeremiah 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/24/2) — One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten…
- [Jeremiah 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/24/3) — Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be…
- [Jeremiah 24:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/24/8) — And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and h…
- [Jeremiah 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/5) — They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given…
- [Jeremiah 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/3) — If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because…
- [Jeremiah 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/17) — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, t…
- [Jeremiah 44:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/22) — So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefo…
- [Hosea 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/15) — All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will l…