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Lexicon :: Strong's H7489 - rāʿaʿ

Aa
רָעַע
Transliteration
rāʿaʿ
Pronunciation
raw-ah'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2191,2192

Strong’s Definitions

רָעַע râʻaʻ, raw-ah'; a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally):—afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 83x

The KJV translates Strong's H7489 in the following manner: evil (20x), evildoer (10x), hurt (7x), wickedly (5x), worse (5x), afflict (5x), wicked (4x), break (3x), doer (3x), ill (3x), harm (3x), displease (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 83x
The KJV translates Strong's H7489 in the following manner: evil (20x), evildoer (10x), hurt (7x), wickedly (5x), worse (5x), afflict (5x), wicked (4x), break (3x), doer (3x), ill (3x), harm (3x), displease (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

  1. to be bad, be evil

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be displeasing

      2. to be sad

      3. to be injurious, be evil

      4. to be wicked, be evil (ethically)

    2. (Hiphil)

      1. to do an injury or hurt

      2. to do evil or wickedly

      3. mischief (participle)

  2. to break, shatter

    1. (Qal)

      1. to break

      2. broken (participle)

      3. to be broken

    2. (Hithpolel) to be broken, be broken in pieces, be broken asunder

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָעַע râʻaʻ, raw-ah'; a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally):—afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
STRONGS H7489: Abbreviations
[רָעַע]98 verb denominative be evil, bad; —
† Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular רַע Numbers 22:34 + 3 times, רָ֑ע Numbers 11:10; 3rd person feminine singular רָעָה Deuteronomy 15:9 (Exodus 21:8 see I. רַע); Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יֵרַע (Ges§ 67 p) Genesis 21:12 +; 3rd person feminine singular תֵּרַע Deuteronomy 28:54, Deuteronomy 28:56; 3rd person masculine plural יֵרְעוּ Nehemiah 2:3; —
1. be displeasing: רַע בְּעֵינֵי Numbers 11:10; Numbers 22:34 (J), Joshua 24:15 (E), Jeremiah 40:4; Proverbs 24:18 (with וְ consecutive) imperfect יֵרַע בְּעֵינֵי Genesis 21:11, Genesis 21:12 (E), Genesis 48:17 (J), 1 Samuel 8:6; 1 Samuel 18:8; 2 Samuel 11:25; later, וַיֵּרַעאֶל Jonah 4:1 or וירעלְ Nehemiah 2:10 (intensified by רָעָה גְרוֺלֶה), וַיֵּרַעלִי מְאֹד Nehemiah 13:8.
2. be sad: ירע לבב Deuteronomy 15:10; 1 Samuel 1:8; יֵֽֽֽרְעוּ פָנַי Nehemiah 2:3.
3. be injurious, evil: וַיִּרַע לְ Psalm 106:32 it went ill with Moses, person subject 2 Samuel 20:6; רָעָה עַיִן be grudging, with ב person, Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 28:54, Deuteronomy 28:56.
4. be evil, wicked, ethically: וַיֵּרַע בְּעֵינֵי י׳ Genesis 38:10 (J) 2 Samuel 11:27; Isaiah 59:15; בְּעֵינֵי אֱלֹהַים 1 Chronicles 21:71 Chronicles 21:7.
†Niph. suffer hurt: Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular (רַע) יֵרוֺעַ Proverbs 11:15; Proverbs 13:20.
Hiph.70 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֵרַע Exodus 5:23 +; 2nd person masculine singular הֲרֵעוֺתָ 1 Kings 17:20, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָרֵעַ Zephaniah 1:12, וַיָּרַע 1 Kings 16:25; 2nd person masculine singular תָּרַע Psalm 44:3 [Psalm 44:2] +, etc.; Infinitive absolute הָרֵעַ 1 Samuel 12:25; 1 Chronicles 21:17; construct הָרַע Genesis 31:7 + 8 times, הָרֵעַ֑ Isaiah 1:16 + 4 times; Participle מֵרַע Isaiah 9:16 [Isaiah 9:17]; Proverbs 17:4; plural מְרֵעִים Isaiah 1:4 +; —
1. do an injury, hurt: absolute Genesis 44:5 (J), Isaiah 11:9 = Isaiah 65:25, Jeremiah 31:28; Proverbs 4:16; Proverbs 24:8; opposed to היטיב Isaiah 41:23; Jeremiah 10:5; Zephaniah 1:12 (all in prov. phr. = do anything at all, compare רָע 2); הרע ל Genesis 19:9; Genesis 43:6; Exodus 5:22, Exodus 5:23; Numbers 11:11 (J) Numbers 20:15; Joshua 24:20 (E) + 5 times; with accusative of person Numbers 16:15 (J) + 4 times; with בְּ, 1 Chronicles 16:22 = Psalm 105:15 (with ל), Jeremiah 25:29; Psalm 74:3; with עִמָּדִי Genesis 31:7 (E); with על 1 Kings 17:20 bring evil upon; swear לְהָרַע, = to one's hurt, Psalm 15:4; Leviticus 5:4 (P); Participle = substantive לְבָכָם לְמֵרָ֔ע [H4827 Daniel 11:27] (shall be) for mischief.
2. do evil, wickedly: absolute Genesis 19:7 (J) 1 Samuel 12:25 (twice in verse) + 6 times; opposed to היטיב Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 13:23; with מִן compare, 1 Kings 14:9; 1 Kings 16:25; 2 Kings 21:11; Jeremiah 7:26; Jeremiah 16:12; with accusative הֵרֵעוּ מַעַלְלֵיהֶם Micah 3:4, compare 1 Samuel 25:3; Participle מֵרַע evil doer, Isaiah 9:16 [Isaiah 9:17]; Proverbs 17:4; plural Jeremiah 20:13; Jeremiah 23:14; Psalm 27:2 + 7 times; וֶרַע מ׳ Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 14:20; בית מ׳ Isaiah 31:2; עֲרַתמ׳ Psalm 22:17 [Psalm 22:16]; קִחַל מ׳ Psalm 26:5; סוֺר מ׳ Psalm 64:3 [Psalm 64:2].

† II. [רָעַע] verb break (Aramaic loan-word = Hebrew רָצַץwhich see); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person plural רָעוּ Jeremiah 11:16; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יָרֹעַ Jeremiah 15:12; Job 34:24, 2nd person masculine singular suffix תְּרֹעֵם Psalm 2:9 (but see below); Infinitive absolute רֹ֫עָה Isaiah 24:19 (strike out ה as dittograph and read רֹעַ, see Hithpō`.); Participle feminine רֹעָה (? for רֹעֲעָה) [H7465 Proverbs 25:19]: —
1. transitive הֲיָרֹע בַּרְזֶל בַּרְזֶל וגו׳ Jeremiah 15:12 can one break iron, iron out of the north? compare יָרֹעַ כַּבִּירִים Job 34:24; תְּרֹעֵם בְּשֵֹׁבֶט בַּרְזֶל Psalm 2:9 (but read תִּרְעֵם, see I. רהְ, Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Hup-Now and others).
2. intransitive break = be broken, of branches Jeremiah 11:16 (in figurative; Gf Or and others; > Hi Gie are in a sad state, √ I. רעע); שֵׁן רֹעָה [H7465 Proverbs 25:19] a broken tooth (ר׳ = רֹעֲעָה ?; Frankenb Niph. Participle נְרָעָה, compare Toy, but Niph. not elsewhere; Vrss רָעָה bad). — רֹ֫עוּ Isaiah 8:9 read דְּעוּ (Greek Version of the LXX Lo Che and others, || הַאֲזִינוּ).
Hithpō`. Perfect 3rd person feminine singular + Qal Infinitive absolute (see above) צרץ [הָ] רֹעַ הִתְרֹעֲעָה Isaiah 24:19 the earth is broken asunder (|| הִתְפּוֹרְרָה פּוֹר, מוֺט הִתְמוֺטְטָה); also Infinitive construct לְהִתְרוֺעֵעַ Proverbs 18:24 will be broken in pieces (Ges§ 114 i), ruined, De and others, but < read לְהִתְרָעוֺת Vrss Toy and others, see רעה Hithp. (see, however, DrExpos. Times xi (1899-1900), 230f.).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:7; 19:9; 21:11; 21:12; 21:12; 31:7; 31:7; 38:10; 43:6; 44:5; 48:17

Exodus

5:22; 5:23; 5:23; 21:8

Leviticus

5:4

Numbers

11:10; 11:10; 11:11; 16:15; 20:15; 22:34; 22:34

Deuteronomy

15:9; 15:9; 15:10; 28:54; 28:54; 28:56; 28:56

Joshua

24:15; 24:20

1 Samuel

1:8; 8:6; 12:25; 12:25; 18:8; 25:3

2 Samuel

11:25; 11:27; 20:6

1 Kings

14:9; 16:25; 16:25; 17:20; 17:20

2 Kings

21:11

1 Chronicles

16:22; 21:7; 21:7; 21:17

Nehemiah

2:3; 2:3; 2:10; 13:8

Job

34:24; 34:24

Psalms

2:9; 2:9; 15:4; 22:16; 26:5; 27:2; 44:2; 64:2; 74:3; 105:15; 106:32

Proverbs

4:16; 11:15; 13:20; 17:4; 17:4; 18:24; 24:8; 24:18

Isaiah

1:4; 1:4; 1:16; 8:9; 9:17; 9:17; 11:9; 14:20; 24:19; 24:19; 31:2; 41:23; 59:15; 65:25

Jeremiah

4:22; 7:26; 10:5; 11:16; 11:16; 13:23; 15:12; 15:12; 16:12; 20:13; 23:14; 25:29; 31:28; 40:4

Jonah

4:1

Micah

3:4

Zephaniah

1:12; 1:12

H7489

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Strong's Number H7489 matches the Hebrew רָעַע (rāʿaʿ),
which occurs 102 times in 99 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 19:7–Psa 27:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:10 - And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:5 - Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - Or if anyone, without thought, takes an oath to do evil or to do good, whatever he says without thought, with an oath, having no knowledge of what he is doing; when it becomes clear to him, he will be responsible for any of these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:10 - And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Then Moses was very angry, and said to the Lord, Give no attention to their offering: not one of their asses have I taken, or done wrong to any of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10 - But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:56 - The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:6 - But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:25 - But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - And Saul was very angry and this saying was unpleasing to him; and he said, They have given David credit for tens of thousands, and to me for only thousands: what more is there for him but the kingdom?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul said, I have done wrong: come back to me, David my son: I will do you no more wrong, because my life was dear to you today truly, I have been foolish and my error is very great.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:27 - And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:25 - And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:22 - Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:7 - And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:10 - And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8 - And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:24 - He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:9 - They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:4 - Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16 - Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:5 - I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

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