Genesis 41:3
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
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Romans 13:10
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
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רַע
raʻ · rah
5 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 41:3Strong's last: Isaiah 3:11
Open full H7451 profile →רָעַע
râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
3 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 43:6Strong's last: Micah 3:4
Open full H7489 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: Job 20:26Strong's last: Psalms 106:32
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kakós · kak-os'
1 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: Romans 13:10Strong's last: Romans 13:10
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H7451
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
H7451
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
H7451
And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
no direct Strong's tag
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
no direct Strong's tag
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
no direct Strong's tag
And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
H7489
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
H7451
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
H3415
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
H3415
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
H7451
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
H7489
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
no direct Strong's tag
But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
H7489
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
G2556
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
English meaning and historical usage.
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ill
ILL, noun
1. Bad or evil, in a general sense; contrary to good, physical or moral; applied to things; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitous; as, his ways are ill; he sets an ill example.
2. Producing evil or misfortune; as an ill star or planet.
3. Bad; evil; unfortunate; as an ill end; an ill fate.
4. Unhealthy; insalubrious; as an ill air or climate.
5. Cross; crabbed; surly; peevish; as ill nature; ill temper.
6. Diseased; disordered; sick or indisposed; applied to persons; as, the man is ill; he has been ill a long time; he is ill of a fever.
7. Diseased; impaired; as an ill state of health.
8. Discordant; harsh; disagreeable; as an ill sound.
9. Homely; ugly; as ill looks, or an ill countenance.
10. Unfavorable; suspicious; as when we say, this affair bears an ill look or aspect.
11. Rude; unpolished; as ill breeding; ill manners.
12. Not proper; not regular or legitimate; as an ill expression in grammar.
ILL, noun Wickedness; depravity; evil.
Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still,
Exerts itself and then throws off the ill
1. Misfortune; calamity; evil; disease; pain; whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success.
Who can all sense of other's ills escape,
Is but a brute at beat in human shape.
ILL, adverb Not well; not rightly or perfectly.
He is ill at ease.
1. Not easily; with pain or difficulty. He is ill able to sustain the burden.
Ill bears the sex the youthful lovers' fate,
When just approaching to the nuptial state.
ILL, prefixed to participles of the present tense, and denoting evil or wrong, may be considered as a noun governed by the participle, or as making a part of a compound word; as an ill meaning man, an ill designing man, an ill boding hour; that is, a man meaning ill an hour boding ill It is more consonant, however, to the genius of our language, to treat these and similar words as compounds. In some cases, as before the participles of intransitive verbs, ill must be considered as a part of the compound, as in ill-looking. When used before the perfect participle, ill is to be considered as an adverb, or modifying word, or to be treated as a part of the compound; as in ill-bred, ill-governed, ill-fated, ill-favored, ill-formed, ill-minded. In these and all similar connections, it might be well to unite the two words in a compound by a hyphen. As ill may be prefixed to almost any participle, it is needless to attempt to collect a list of such words for insertion.
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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