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# רִשְׁעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7564

**wickedness** — used 15 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

wickedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7564/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רִשְׁעָה: n.f. wickedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7564/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wickedness;—abs. ר׳ Is 9:17 +; cstr. רִשְׁעַת Dt 9:4 +; sf. רִשְׁעָתוֹ Dt 25:2 +;— wickedness in civil relations, Dt 25:2; Pr 13:6; Is 9:17; בְּרִשְׁעָתוֹ יפּל רָשָׁע Pr 11:5. wickedness of enemies, גְּבוּל ר׳ Mal 1:4 (Edom); זאת הר׳ Zc 5:8 (personif.); לְרִשְׁעָה Ez 5:6 (del. Co); רִשְׁעַת הגוים Dt 9:4, 5. wickedness, ethical and religious, עשׂה ר׳ Mal 3:15, 19, שׁוּב מֵרִשְׁעָתוֹ Ez 18:27; 33:19; רִשְׁעַת (הָ)רָשָׁע 18:20; 33:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wickedness (7); the wickedness (4); (of) wickedness (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 13:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.13.6/#tree)

צְ֭דָקָה תִּצֹּ֣ר תָּם־דָּ֑רֶךְ וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה תְּסַלֵּ֥ף חַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* righteousness it.preserves integrity of.way and wickedness it.subverts sin

*JPS 1917:* Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

[Proverbs 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.5/#tree)

צִדְקַ֣ת תָּ֭מִים תְּיַשֵּׁ֣ר דַּרְכּ֑וֹ וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹ יִפֹּ֥ל רָשָֽׁע׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].righteousness of.a.blameless.\[person\] it.makes.straight way his and by wickedness his he.falls a.wicked.\[person\]

*JPS 1917:* The righteousness of the sincere shall make straight his way; but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7564/): 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).