Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7564
רִשְׁעָה
rish.ah · “wickedness”
Used 15 times across 6 books
Definition
1) wickedness, guilt
1a) wickedness (in civil relations)
1b) wickedness (of enemies)
1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)
1a) wickedness (in civil relations)
1b) wickedness (of enemies)
1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)
Where it appears
Deuteronomy3
Proverbs2
Isaiah1
Ezekiel5
Zechariah1
Malachi3
In the text
Deuteronomy 9:4Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.Deuteronomy 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Deuteronomy 25:2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.Proverbs 13:6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.Ezekiel 5:6And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.Ezekiel 18:20The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.Ezekiel 18:27Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.Ezekiel 33:12Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
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