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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Evil
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Revelation 2:2
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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22 verses
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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רַע
raʻ · rah
434 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences
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.).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:9Strong's last: Malachi 2:17
Open full H7451 profile →πονηρός
ponērós · pon-ay-ros'
52 times translated as this KJV form77 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:11Strong's last: 2 John 1:11
Open full G4190 profile →κακός
kakós · kak-os'
43 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:48Strong's last: Revelation 2:2
Open full G2556 profile →רָעַע
râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
19 times translated as this KJV form83 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 44:5Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:12
Open full H7489 profile →רֹעַ
rôaʻ · ro'-ah
11 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
badness (as marring), physically or morally
Strong's KJV usage: × be so bad, badness, (× be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 1:16Strong's last: Jeremiah 44:22
Open full H7455 profile →καταλαλέω
katalaléō · kat-al-al-eh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
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 →βλασφημέω
blasphēméō · blas-fay-meh'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form39 total Strong's occurrences
to vilify; specially, to speak impiously
Strong's KJV usage: :--(speak) blaspheme(-er, -mously, -my), defame, rail on, revile, speak evil.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:12Strong's last: Jude 1:10
Open full G987 profile →κακοποιέω
kakopoiéō · kak-op-oy-eh'-o
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to be a bad-doer, i.e. (objectively) to injure, or (genitive) to sin
Strong's KJV usage: :--do(ing) evil.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 3:4Strong's last: 3 John 1:11
Open full G2554 profile →φαῦλος
phaûlos · fow'-los
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
"foul" or "flawy", i.e. (figuratively) wicked
Strong's KJV usage: :--evil.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 3:20Strong's last: James 3:16
Open full G5337 profile →κακολογέω
kakologéō · kak-ol-og-eh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to revile
Strong's KJV usage: :--curse, speak evil of.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 9:39Strong's last: Acts 19:9
Open full G2551 profile →κακῶς
kakōs · kak-oce'
2 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
badly (physically or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--amiss, diseased, evil, grievously, miserably, sick, sore.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 18:23Strong's last: Acts 23:5
Open full G2560 profile →יָרַע
yâraʻ · yaw-rah'
2 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:54Strong's last: Deuteronomy 28:56
Open full H3415 profile →κακία
kakía · kak-ee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble
Strong's KJV usage: :--evil, malice(-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:34Strong's last: Matthew 6:34
Open full G2549 profile →κακόω
kakóō · kak-o'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to injure; figuratively, to exasperate
Strong's KJV usage: :--make evil affected, entreat evil, harm, hurt, vex.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:6Strong's last: Acts 7:6
Open full G2559 profile →אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 12:21Strong's last: Proverbs 12:21
Open full H205 profile →בְּלִיַּעַל
bᵉlîyaʻal · bel-e-yah'-al
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
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 →זָמַם
zâmam · zaw-mam'
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to plan, usually in a bad sense
Strong's KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 30:32Strong's last: Proverbs 30:32
Open full H2161 profile →עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh · aw-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2,630 total Strong's occurrences
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
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H7455
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.
H7451
And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
H7455
And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
H7451
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
H7455
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
H7489
For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
H7451
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
H7451
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
H7451
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
H7455
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
H7451
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
H7451
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
H7451
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
H7451
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
H7451
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
H7455
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
H7451
And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
H7451
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
H7451
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
H7451
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
H7451
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
H7451
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
H7451
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
H7451
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
H7451
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.
English meaning and historical usage.
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evil
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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