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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Mischief

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

47exact KJV occurrences 46Old Testament 1New Testament 16books containing the word 11mapped Strong's IDs 45occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 42:4

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Acts 13:10

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where mischief appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7451
רַע

raʻ · rah

19 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m n-f

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: Exodus 32:12Strong's last: Hosea 7:15

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HebrewH5999
עָמָל

ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'

9 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences

n

toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind

Strong's KJV usage: grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.

Strong's first: Job 15:35Strong's last: Isaiah 59:4

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HebrewH205
אָוֶן

ʼâven · aw-ven'

3 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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: Psalms 36:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 11:2

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GreekG4468
ῥᾳδιουργία

rhaidiourgía · hrad-ee-oorg-ee'-a

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

recklessness, i.e. (by extension) malignity

Strong's KJV usage: :--mischief.

Strong's first: Acts 13:10Strong's last: Acts 13:10

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HebrewH2050
הָתַת

hâthath · haw-thath'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to break in upon, i.e. to assail

Strong's KJV usage: imagine mischief.

Strong's first: Psalms 62:3Strong's last: Psalms 62:3

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HebrewH4827
מֵרַע

mêraʻ · may-rah'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

used as (abstract) noun, wickedness

Strong's KJV usage: do mischief.

Strong's first: Daniel 11:27Strong's last: Daniel 11:27

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HebrewH7489
רָעַע

râʻaʻ · raw-ah'

1 times translated as this KJV form83 total Strong's occurrences

v

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: Proverbs 4:16Strong's last: Proverbs 4:16

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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47 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 42:4
H611

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Genesis 42:38
H611

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 44:29
H611

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Exodus 21:22
no direct Strong's tag

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:23
no direct Strong's tag

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

Exodus 32:12
H7451

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Exodus 32:22
H7451

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.

1 Samuel 23:9
H7451

And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.

2 Samuel 16:8
H7451

The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

1 Kings 11:25
H7451

And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

1 Kings 20:7
H7451

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

2 Kings 7:9
H5771

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

Nehemiah 6:2
H7451

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Esther 8:3
H7451

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

Job 15:35
H5999

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Psalms 7:14
H5999

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 7:16
H5999

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Psalms 10:7
H5999

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalms 10:14
H5999

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Psalms 26:10
H2154

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 28:3
H7451

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 36:4
H205

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 52:1
H7451

<<To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.>> Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Psalms 55:10
H205

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Psalms 62:3
H2050

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

mischief

MIS'CHIEF, noun

1. Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not. A new law is made to remedy the mischief

2. Intentional injury; harm or damage done by design.

Thy tongue deviseth mischief Psalms 52:1.

3. Ill consequence; evil; vexatious affair.

The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued.

MIS'CHIEF, verb transitive To hurt; to harm; to injure.

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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