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:
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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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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
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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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