Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Read in context →I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Read in context →99 occurrences in 86 verses.
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raʻ · rah
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Strong's KJV usage: 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.).
Strong's first: Genesis 2:9Strong's last: Malachi 2:17
Open full H7451 profile →ponērós · pon-ay-ros'
hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from G2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from G4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners
Strong's KJV usage: :--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:11Strong's last: 2 John 1:11
Open full G4190 profile →kakós · kak-os'
worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas G4190 properly refers to effects), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious
Strong's KJV usage: :--bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.
Strong's first: Matthew 24:48Strong's last: Revelation 2:2
Open full G2556 profile →râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: 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.
Strong's first: Genesis 44:5Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:12
Open full H7489 profile →rôaʻ · ro'-ah
badness (as marring), physically or morally
Strong's KJV usage: × be so bad, badness, (× be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.
Strong's first: Isaiah 1:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 44:22
Open full H7455 profile →katalaléō · kat-al-al-eh'-o
to be a traducer, i.e. to slander
Strong's KJV usage: :--speak against (evil of).
Strong's first: James 4:11Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:16
Open full G2635 profile →blasphēméō · blas-fay-meh'-o
to vilify; specially, to speak impiously
Strong's KJV usage: :--(speak) blaspheme(-er, -mously, -my), defame, rail on, revile, speak evil.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:12Strong's last: Jude 1:10
Open full G987 profile →kakopoiéō · kak-op-oy-eh'-o
to be a bad-doer, i.e. (objectively) to injure, or (genitive) to sin
Strong's KJV usage: :--do(ing) evil.
Strong's first: Mark 3:4Strong's last: 3 John 1:11
Open full G2554 profile →phaûlos · fow'-los
"foul" or "flawy", i.e. (figuratively) wicked
Strong's KJV usage: :--evil.
Strong's first: John 3:20Strong's last: James 3:16
Open full G5337 profile →kakologéō · kak-ol-og-eh'-o
to revile
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse, speak evil of.
Strong's first: Mark 9:39Strong's last: Acts 19:9
Open full G2551 profile →kakōs · kak-oce'
badly (physically or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--amiss, diseased, evil, grievously, miserably, sick, sore.
Strong's first: John 18:23Strong's last: Acts 23:5
Open full G2560 profile →yâraʻ · yaw-rah'
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Strong's KJV usage: be grevious (only Isaiah 15:4; the rest belong to 7489).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:54Strong's last: Deuteronomy 28:56
Open full H3415 profile →kakía · kak-ee'-ah
badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble
Strong's KJV usage: :--evil, malice(-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:34Strong's last: Matthew 6:34
Open full G2549 profile →kakóō · kak-o'-o
to injure; figuratively, to exasperate
Strong's KJV usage: :--make evil affected, entreat evil, harm, hurt, vex.
Strong's first: Acts 7:6Strong's last: Acts 7:6
Open full G2559 profile →ʼâven · aw-ven'
strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Strong's first: Proverbs 12:21Strong's last: Proverbs 12:21
Open full H205 profile →bᵉlîyaʻal · bel-e-yah'-al
without profit, worthlessness; by extension, destruction, wickedness
Strong's KJV usage: Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.
Strong's first: Psalms 41:8Strong's last: Psalms 41:8
Open full H1100 profile →zâmam · zaw-mam'
to plan, usually in a bad sense
Strong's KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Strong's first: Proverbs 30:32Strong's last: Proverbs 30:32
Open full H2161 profile →ʻâsâh · aw-saw'
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 3:39Strong's last: 2 Samuel 3:39
Open full H6213 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
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E'VIL, adjective e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.]
1. Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief.
Some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37:2.
2. Having bad qualities of a moral kind; wicked; corrupt; perverse; wrong; as evil thoughts; evil deeds; evil speaking; an evil generation.
3. Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
E'VIL, noun evil is natural or moral. Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.
Moral evil is any deviation of a moral agent from the rules of conduct prescribed to him by God, or by legitimate human authority; or it is any violation of the plain principles of justice and rectitude.
There are also evils called civil, which affect injuriously the peace or prosperity of a city or state; and political evils, which injure a nation, in its public capacity.
All wickedness, all crimes, all violations of law and right are moral evils. Diseases are natural evils, but they often proceed from moral evils.
2. Misfortune; mischief; injury.
There shall no evil befall thee. Psalms 91:10.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Proverbs 22:3.
3. Depravity; corruption of heart, or disposition to commit wickedness; malignity.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil Ecclesiastes 9:3.
4. Malady; as the king's evil or scrophula.
E'VIL, adverb [generally contracted to ill.]
1. Not well; not with justice or propriety; unsuitable.
Evil it beseems thee.
2. Not virtuously; not innocently.
3. Not happily; unfortunately.
It went evil with his house.
4. Injuriously; not kindly.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us.
In composition, evil denoting something bad or wrong, is often contracted to ill.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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