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# רֹעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7455

**badness** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

badness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7455/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹעַ: badness, evil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7455/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] badness, evil;—ר׳ abs. Gn 41:19 + 4 times Je; cstr. Ho 9:15 + 13 times;— badness, bad quality, of cattle Gn 41:19 (E), figs Je 24:2, 3, 8; 29:17. wilfulness, רֹעַ לבב 1 S 17:28 (Gerber161 makes 2 and 4 \[inf. of\] vb.). ethical, evil, badness, only in phr.: רֹעַ מעללים evil of doings Dt 28:20; Is 1:16; Je 4:4; 21:12; 23:2, 22; 25:5; 26:3; 44:22; Ho 9:15 ψ 28:4 (cf. רַע מעללים 1 S 25:3). sadness, ר׳ פָּנִים Ec 7:3, ר׳ לֵב Ne 2:2 (cf. \[רַעַע\] 2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the wickedness (11); badness (5); sadness (2).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.3/#tree)

ט֥וֹב כַּ֖עַס מִשְּׂחֹ֑ק כִּֽי־בְרֹ֥עַ פָּנִ֖ים יִ֥יטַב לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good vexation more than.laughter (dm) by sadness of.face it.will.be.good a.heart

*JPS 1917:* Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart may be gladdened.

[Isaiah 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.16/#tree)

רַחֲצוּ֙ הִזַּכּ֔וּ הָסִ֛ירוּ רֹ֥עַ מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י חִדְל֖וּ הָרֵֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* wash make.yourselves.clean remove the.wickedness your.deeds your from before eyes my cease to.do.evil

*JPS 1917:* Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7455.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7455/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).