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Lexicon :: Strong's H7563 - rāšāʿ

Aa
רָשָׁע
Transliteration
rāšāʿ
Pronunciation
raw-shaw'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2222b

Strong’s Definitions

רָשָׁע râshâʻ, raw-shaw'; from H7561; morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person:— condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 263x

The KJV translates Strong's H7563 in the following manner: wicked (249x), ungodly (8x), wicked man (3x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 263x
The KJV translates Strong's H7563 in the following manner: wicked (249x), ungodly (8x), wicked man (3x), miscellaneous (3x).

  1. wicked, criminal

    1. guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst)

    2. wicked (hostile to God)

    3. wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רָשָׁע râshâʻ, raw-shaw'; from H7561; morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person:— condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
STRONGS H7563: Abbreviations
רָשָׁע 263 adjective wicked, criminal; — absolute ר׳ Genesis 18:23 +; plural רְשָׁעִים Isaiah 13:11 +; construct רִשְׁעֵי Psalm 75:9 + 3 times feminine singular רְשָׁעָה Ezekiel 3:18 (strike out Co), Ezekiel 3:19 (רָשָׁע Co); —
1. usually as substantive, one guilty of crime, deserving punishment; sometimes also wicked; opposed to צַדִּיע; רָשָׁע Exodus 2:13; Exodus 23:1 (E), Deuteronomy 25:2; Proverbs 17:23; Proverbs 18:5; Proverbs 25:5; Job 9:22, 24; collective Genesis 18:23, 25 (twice in verse) (J) Micah 6:10; Proverbs 3:33; Proverbs 28:4, רשׁעים 1 Samuel 24:14; Jeremiah 5:26; Proverbs 19:28; Proverbs 20:26; Proverbs 29:12, אנשׁים רשׁעים 2 Samuel 4:11 (murderers), רָשָׁע לָמוּת Numbers 35:31 (P) guilty of death, מוֺשֵׁל ר׳ Proverbs 28:15, compare Proverbs 29:2, הִצְדִּיק ר׳ Exodus 23:7 (E) Isaiah 5:23; Proverbs 17:15; הִרְשִׁיעַ ר׳ Deuteronomy 25:1; 1 Kings 8:32 = השׁיב לְרָשָׁע 2 Chronicles 6:23; צַדִּיק אמר לר׳ Proverbs 24:24.
2. guilty of hostility to God or his people, wicked enemies: רשׁע singular Psalm 17:13 + 6 times Psalms; Isaiah 26:10; collective Psalm 9:6; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 10:2 + 6 times Psalms; Isaiah 11:4; Habakkuk 3:13; רשׁעים Psalm 3:8; Psalm 7:10; Psalm 9:18 + 5 times Psalms; Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:20, 21; Jeremiah 25:31; Ezekiel 21:34; Malachi 3:21 (+ (possibly) other cases; often hard to decide); specifically of Pharaoh Exodus 9:27 (J), Babylon Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 14:5, Chaldeans Habakkuk 1:4, 13; || שׂנְאֵי יהוה 2 Chronicles 19:2.
3. guilty of sin, against either God or man, wicked: האנשׁים הרשׁעים Numbers 16:26 (J, rebellious Korahites), Malachi 3:18 (not serving י׳), opposed to צַדִּיק; singular individual Ezekiel 3:18 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 33:8 (twice in verse); Psalm 11:5; Psalm 32:10; Proverbs 9:7 +; collective Isaiah 3:11; Job 34:18; Job 36:6, 17; plural רשׁעים Isaiah 53:9; Jeremiah 23:19 = Jeremiah 30:23, Zephaniah 1:3; Psalm 26:5; Proverbs 10:3; Ecclesiastes 8:10 +; || חסֹידים 1 Samuel 2:9 (Poem), Psalm 12:9; Psalm 50:16; Psalm 97:10; Psalm 145:20; || עֹזְבֵי תוֺדָתֶ֑ךָ Psalm 119:53; compare V:61, +; אדם ר׳ Proverbs 11:7; Job 20:29; Job 27:13; אִישׁ ר׳ Proverbs 21:29; מלאך ר׳ Proverbs 13:17; זֶרַע רשׁעים Psalm 37:28; עֲצַת רשׁעים Psalm 1:1; Job 10:3; Job 21:16; Job 22:18; דֶּרֶךְ רשׁעים Jeremiah 12:1; Psalm 1:6; Psalm 146:9; Proverbs 4:19; Proverbs 12:26; דֶּרֶךְ רשׁע Proverbs 15:9; מִדַּדְכּוֺ הָֽרְשָׁעה Ezekiel 3:18, 19 (but see, Co, above); רִשְׁעֵי (ה)ארץ Psalm 75:9; Psalm 101:8; Psalm 119:119; Ezekiel 7:21 (Greek Version of the LXX Co עריצי). — is rare before exile; chiefly Ezekiel Psalms Wisdom Literature.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:23; 18:23; 18:25

Exodus

2:13; 9:27; 23:1; 23:7

Numbers

16:26; 35:31

Deuteronomy

25:1; 25:2

1 Samuel

2:9; 24:14

2 Samuel

4:11

1 Kings

8:32

2 Chronicles

6:23; 19:2

Job

9:22; 9:24; 10:3; 20:29; 21:16; 22:18; 27:13; 34:18; 36:6; 36:17

Psalms

1:1; 1:6; 3:8; 7:10; 9:6; 9:17; 9:18; 10:2; 11:5; 17:13; 26:5; 32:10; 37:28; 50:16; 75:9; 75:9; 97:10; 101:8; 119:53; 119:119; 145:20; 146:9

Proverbs

3:33; 4:19; 9:7; 10:3; 11:7; 12:26; 13:17; 15:9; 17:15; 17:23; 18:5; 19:28; 20:26; 21:29; 24:24; 25:5; 28:4; 28:15; 29:2; 29:12

Ecclesiastes

8:10

Isaiah

3:11; 5:23; 11:4; 13:11; 13:11; 14:5; 26:10; 48:22; 53:9; 57:20; 57:21

Jeremiah

5:26; 12:1; 23:19; 25:31; 30:23

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:18; 3:18; 3:19; 3:19; 7:21; 21:30; 33:8

Micah

6:10

Habakkuk

1:4; 1:13; 3:13

Zephaniah

1:3

Malachi

3:18

H7563

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7563 matches the Hebrew רָשָׁע (rāšāʿ),
which occurs 263 times in 248 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 5 (Ecc 8:10–Mal 4:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10 - Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[fn] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 - There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[fn] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:11 - Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23 - who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:4 - but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:11 - I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:5 - The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:10 - But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:22 - “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:9 - He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:7 - Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20 - But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:21 - “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:26 - “Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1 - You are always righteous, LORD, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:19 - See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,’ ”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:23 - See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:18 - When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:19 - But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies, when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:21 - “But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:23 - Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:27 - But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:3 - and say to her: ‘This is what the LORD says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:4 - Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - “ ‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - Despite false visions concerning you and lying divinations about you, it will be laid on the necks of the wicked who are to be slain, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9 - But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:11 - Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:14 - And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:15 - if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:19 - And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10 - Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:10 - Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah,[fn] which is accursed?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:4 - Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:13 - You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - “I will sweep away both man and beast; I will sweep away the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea— and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”[fn] “When I destroy all mankind on the face of the earth,”

declares the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:3 - Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the LORD Almighty.

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