Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7489: רָעַע (râʻaʻ) Definition

Strong's number
H7489
Lemma
רָעַע
Transliteration
râʻaʻ
Pronunciation
raw-ah'
Strong's definition
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally) 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) ill, [idiom] indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse. a primitive root;

90 instances of the word רָעַע râʻaʻ (H7489)


  • Jeremiah 13:23 - change Can the Ethiopian his skin or the leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil

  • Jeremiah 15:12 - break Shall iron Shall iron the northern and the steel

  • Jeremiah 16:12 - worse And ye have done than your fathers ye walk every one after the imagination heart of his evil that they may not hearken

  • Jeremiah 20:13 - Sing unto the LORD praise unto the LORD for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers

  • Jeremiah 23:14 - also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen an horrible thing they commit adultery and walk in lies they strengthen also the hands of evildoers doth return that none from his wickedness they are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah

  • Jeremiah 25:6 - not after gods other to serve them and to worship them and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands and I will do you no hurt

  • Jeremiah 25:29 - on the city for I will call by my name For lo I begin to bring evil Ye shall not be unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished Ye shall not be unpunished for a sword for I will call upon all the inhabitants of the earth saith the LORD of hosts

  • 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 afflict And it shall come to pass that like as I have watched over them to build and to plant saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 38:9 - My lord the king have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die in the place for hunger where he is for there is no more bread in the city

  • Jeremiah 40:4 - And now behold I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand If it seem good come with me into Babylon come and I will look well unto thee but if it seem ill come with me into Babylon forbear behold all the land is before thee whither it seemeth If it seem good thee whither it seemeth and convenient

  • Job 8:20 - Behold God will not cast away a perfect man neither will he help the evil doers

  • Job 34:24 - He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others

  • Jonah 4:1 - Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry

  • Joshua 24:20 - If ye forsake the LORD and serve gods strange then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good

  • Judges 19:23 - went out And the man the master into mine house unto them and said unto them Nay my brethren unto them Nay nay I pray you do not so wickedly seeing is come And the man into mine house unto them Nay do not this folly

  • Leviticus 5:4 - Or if a soul swear pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good pronouncing whatsoever it be that a man with an oath and it be hid from him when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one

  • 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 themselves ill in their doings

  • Micah 4:6 - In that day saith the LORD will I assemble her that halteth her that is driven out and I will gather and her that I have afflicted

  • Micah 5:6 - and the land of Assyria with the sword and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof thus shall he deliver of Assyria when he cometh and the land and when he treadeth within our borders

  • Nehemiah 2:3 - And said Let the king Let the king for ever live why should not my countenance when the city the place sepulchres of my fathers lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire