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# רֶשַׁע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7562

**wickedness** — used 30 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/1512/7562/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֶ֫שַׁע: n.m. wickedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7562/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 24:14 wickedness;—abs. ר׳ Mi 6:10 +, רָ֑שַׁע Ec 3:16; cstr. (perhaps) רֶ֫שַׁע 7:25; sf. רִשְׁעוֹ Dt 9:27 +, etc.;— wickedness, as violence and crime against civil law Ec 3:16(×2); אֶגְרֹף ר׳ Is 58:4 fist of wickedness; חַרְצֻבּוֹת ר׳ v 6; לֶחֶם ר׳ Pr 4:17; מַטֵּה ר׳ Ez 7:11; מֹאזְנֵי ר׳ Mi 6:11; אֹצְרוֹת ר׳ v 10, cf. Pr 10:2; בְּרֶשַׁע ψ 141:4; Pr 12:3; עשׂות ר׳ 16:12; מִרְשָׁעִים יֵצֵא ר׳ 1 S 24:14 (proverb). wickedness of enemies: of Egypt Ez 31:11 (dub. Co; gloss Toy); שֵׁבֶט הר׳ ψ 125:3 (𝔊 SS רָשָׁע). wickedness, in ethical relations: ‖ חטאת Dt 9:27 (D2); ‖ עון Je 14:20; ‖ עולה Ho 10:13; opp. צֶדֶק ψ 45:8, אֱמֶת Pr 8:7; v. also ψ 5:5; 10:15; Jb 34:10; 35:8; Ec 7:25; 8:8; אַנְשֵׁי ר׳ Jb 34:8; אָהֳלֵי ר׳ ψ 84:11; שׁוּב מֵרִשְׁעוֹ Ez 3:19; 33:12 (v. רִשְׁעָה 3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wickedness (20); of wickedness (9); to (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.17/#tree)

כִּ֣י לָ֭חֲמוּ לֶ֣חֶם רֶ֑שַׁע וְיֵ֖ין חֲמָסִ֣ים יִשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they.eat \[the\].bread of.wickedness and.\[the\] wine of.violence(s) they.drink

*JPS 1917:* For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

[Proverbs 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.2/#tree)

לֹא־י֭וֹעִילוּ אוֹצְר֣וֹת רֶ֑שַׁע וּ֝צְדָקָ֗ה תַּצִּ֥יל מִמָּֽוֶת׃

*Word for word:* not they.profit treasures of.wickedness and righteousness it.delivers from death

*JPS 1917:* Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7562.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7562/): 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).