רֶ֫שַׁע
re.sah
“wickedness”
Definition
a wrong (especially moral)
from H7561 (רָשַׁע);
- wrong, wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (as violence and crime against civil law) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (in ethical relations)
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רֶ֫שַׁע appears 25 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
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Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:to break the chains of wickedness,to untie the cords of the yoke,to set the oppressed freeand tear off every yoke?
Can I forget any longer,O house of the wicked,the treasures of wickednessand the short ephah, which is accursed?
For they eat the bread of wickednessand drink the wine of violence.
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