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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Mischief
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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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13 occurrences in 13 verses.
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רַע
raʻ · rah
19 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.).
Strong's first: Exodus 32:12Strong's last: Hosea 7:15
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ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'
9 times translated as this KJV form55 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 15:35Strong's last: Isaiah 59:4
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ʼâven · aw-ven'
3 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: Psalms 36:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 11:2
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ʼâçôwn · aws-sone'
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
hurt
Strong's KJV usage: mischief.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:4Strong's last: Genesis 44:29
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hôvâh · ho-vaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
ruin
Strong's KJV usage: mischief.
Strong's first: Isaiah 47:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 7:26
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zimmâh · zim-maw'
3 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
a plan, especially a bad one
Strong's KJV usage: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 26:10Strong's last: Proverbs 10:23
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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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hâthath · haw-thath'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
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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mêraʻ · may-rah'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
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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ʻâvôn · aw-vone'
1 times translated as this KJV form229 total Strong's occurrences
perversity, i.e. (moral) evil
Strong's KJV usage: fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 7:9Strong's last: 2 Kings 7:9
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râʻaʻ · raw-ah'
1 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: Proverbs 4:16Strong's last: Proverbs 4:16
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H7489
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
H7451
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
H7451
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
H2154
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
H7451
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
H7451
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
H7451
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
H7451
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
H5999
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
H7451
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
H7451
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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