# H7489 רָעַע

רָעַע (râʻaʻ), Strong’s H7489: properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally) KJV: afflict, associate…

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*râʻaʻ* — properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

KJV: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה)), break (down, in pieces)…

Occurs 102 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [רָעַע] 98 vb. denom. be evil, bad
- Qal
- 1 be displeasing
- 2 be sad
- 3 be injurious, evil
- 4 be evil, wicked, ethically
- Niph. suffer hurt
- Hiph. 70
- 1 do an injury, hurt
- 2 do evil, wickedly
- רָעַע vb
- [רָעַע] vb. break
- Qal
- 1 trans. can one break iron, iron out of the north ?
- 2 intrans. break = be broken
- Hithpō‛. the earth is broken asunder

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 19:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=7) — He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- [Genesis 19:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=9) — They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a…
- [Genesis 21:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=11) — The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
- [Genesis 21:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=12) — God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all…
- [Genesis 31:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=7) — Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
- [Genesis 38:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=10) — The thing which he did was evil in the LORD’s sight, and he killed him also.
- [Genesis 43:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=6) — Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?”
- [Genesis 44:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=5) — Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’”
- [Genesis 48:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/48?v=17) — When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s…
- [Exodus 5:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=22) — Moses returned to the LORD, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent…