Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Read in context →And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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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 6:5Strong's last: Nahum 3:19
Open full H7451 profile →reshaʻ · reh'-shah
a wrong (especially moral)
Strong's KJV usage: iniquity, wicked(-ness).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 9:27Strong's last: Micah 6:10
Open full H7562 profile →rishʻâh · rish-aw'
wrong (especially moral)
Strong's KJV usage: fault, wickedly(-ness).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 9:4Strong's last: Malachi 3:15
Open full H7564 profile →ʻevel · eh'-vel
(moral) evil
Strong's KJV usage: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 7:10Strong's last: Psalms 89:22
Open full H5766 profile →ponēría · pon-ay-ree'-ah
depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins
Strong's KJV usage: :--iniquity, wickedness.
Strong's first: Matthew 22:18Strong's last: Ephesians 6:12
Open full G4189 profile →zimmâh · zim-maw'
a plan, especially a bad one
Strong's KJV usage: heinous crime, lewd(-ly, -ness), mischief, purpose, thought, wicked (device, mind, -ness).
Strong's first: Leviticus 18:17Strong's last: Leviticus 20:14
Open full H2154 profile →havvâh · hav-vaw'
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Strong's first: Psalms 5:9Strong's last: Psalms 55:11
Open full H1942 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: Deuteronomy 28:20Strong's last: Hosea 9:15
Open full H7455 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: Job 11:11Strong's last: Proverbs 30:20
Open full H205 profile →en · en
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (… sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in).
Strong's first: Acts 25:5Strong's last: Acts 25:5
Open full G1722 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: Acts 8:22Strong's last: Acts 8:22
Open full G2549 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: 1 John 5:19Strong's last: 1 John 5:19
Open full G4190 profile →ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'
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 4:8Strong's last: Job 4:8
Open full H5999 profile →râshaʻ · raw-shah'
to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate
Strong's KJV usage: condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:47Strong's last: 1 Kings 8:47
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
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WICKEDNESS, noun Departure from the rules of the divine law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; crime; sin; sinfulness; corrupt manners wickedness generally signifies evil practices.
What wickedness is this that is done among you? Judges 20:3.
But wickedness expresses also the corrupt dispositions of the heart.
Their inward part is very wickedness Psalms 5:4.
In heart ye work wickedness Psalms 5:48.
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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