# H7451 רַע

רַע (raʻ), Strong’s H7451: bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) KJV: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress…. Occurs 664 times.

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*raʻ* — bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

KJV: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, [phrase] displease(-ure), distress…

Derived from [רָעַע râʻaʻ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7489) (to spoil)

Occurs 664 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רַע 126 n.m. evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
- 1 evil, distress, adversity
- 2 evil, injury, wrong
- 3 ethical evil
- רַע adj
- רַע 228 adj. bad, evil
- 1 bad, disagreeable, malignant
- 2 bad, unpleasant, giving pain, unhappiness, misery
- 3 evil, displeasing
- 4 bad of its kind
- 5 bad,, i.e. of low value
- 6 מִן comp., worse than
- 7 sad, unhappy
- 8 devise evil (hurtful) device
- 9 bad, unkind, vicious in disposition or temper
- 10 ethically bad, evil, wicked
- רָעָה n.f
- רָעָה 310 n.f. evil, misery, distress, injury
- 1 evil, misery, distress
- 2 evil, injury, wrong
- 3 ethical evil

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=9) — Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the…
- [Genesis 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=17) — but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely…
- [Genesis 3:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=5) — for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- [Genesis 3:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=22) — The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand…
- [Genesis 6:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=5) — The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s…
- [Genesis 8:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=21) — The LORD smelled the pleasant aroma. The LORD said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s…
- [Genesis 13:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=13) — Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 24:50](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=50) — Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
- [Genesis 26:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=29) — that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you…