Definition

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

Etymology

from H7489 (רָעַע);

Word family

• רָעַע râʻaʻ

How the KJV renders it

• adversity
• affliction
• bad
• calamity
• displease(-ure)
• distress
• evil((-favouredness)
• man
• thing)
• exceedingly
• great
• grief(-vous)
• harm
• heavy
• hurt(-ful)
• ill (favoured)
• mark
• mischief(-vous)
• misery
• naught(-ty)
• noisome
• not please
• sad(-ly)
• sore
• sorrow
• trouble
• vex
• wicked(-ly
• -ness
• one)
• worse(-st)
• wretchedness
• wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.