H7564 - רִשְׁעָה (rishʻâh)

H7564 רִשְׁעָה (rishʻâh) rish-aw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

wickedness

Strong's Definition

wrong (especially moral)

Derivation: feminine of H7562 (רֶשַׁע);

KJV Usage: fault, wickedly(-ness).

TWOT Reference: 2222c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) wickedness, guilt

1a) wickedness (in civil relations)

1b) wickedness (of enemies)

1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1715

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (in civil relations) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

רִשְׁעָה rish‛âh BDB Definition: 1) wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (in civil relations) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (ethical and religious) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7562 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2222c Total KJV Occurrences: 15

Bible Occurrences (15)

9:4 9:5 25:2

11:5 13:6

9:18

5:6 18:20 18:27 33:12 33:19

5:8

1:4 3:15 4:1

Deuteronomy 9:4

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you,... do not say in your heart, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land. Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but [it is] because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 25:2

If... the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guards the man of integrity..., but wickedness undermines the sinner.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Ezekiel 5:6

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For [her people] have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.