Strong’s H7561 · Hebrew

רָשַׁע
râshaʻ
raw-shah'

Definition

to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • condemn
  • make trouble
  • vex
  • be (commit
  • deal
  • depart
  • do) wicked(-ly
  • -ness)

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.