# H7455 רֹעַ

רֹעַ (rôaʻ), Strong’s H7455: badness (as marring), physically or morally KJV: [idiom] be so bad, badness, ([idiom] be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow…. Occurs 19 times.

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*rôaʻ* — badness (as marring), physically or morally

KJV: [idiom] be so bad, badness, ([idiom] be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow…

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

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רֹעַ n.[m.] badness, evil
- 1 badness, bad quality, of cattle
- 2 wilfulness
- 3 ethical, evil, badness
- 4 sadness

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 41:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=19) — and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of…
- [Deuteronomy 28:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=20) — The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed…
- [1 Samuel 17:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=28) — Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have…
- [Isaiah 1:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=16) — Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
- [Jeremiah 4:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=4) — Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of…
- [Jeremiah 21:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/21?v=12) — House of David, the LORD says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the…
- [Jeremiah 23:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=2) — Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock…
- [Jeremiah 23:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=22) — But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them…
- [Jeremiah 24:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/24?v=2) — One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could…
- [Jeremiah 24:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/24?v=3) — Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very…