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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Wickedness
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1 John 5:19
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
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22 occurrences in 18 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Leviticus
43 verses
Deuteronomy
66 verses
Judges
33 verses
1 Samuel
44 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
1 Kings
54 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
99 verses
Psalms
1414 verses
Proverbs
1111 verses
Ecclesiastes
44 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
2218 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
1110 verses
Hosea
76 verses
Joel
11 verses
Jonah
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Nahum
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Malachi
22 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
22 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
1 John
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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רַע
raʻ · rah
59 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: Genesis 6:5Strong's last: Nahum 3:19
Open full H7451 profile →רֶשַׁע
reshaʻ · reh'-shah
25 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
a wrong (especially moral)
Strong's KJV usage: iniquity, wicked(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 9:27Strong's last: Micah 6:10
Open full H7562 profile →רִשְׁעָה
rishʻâh · rish-aw'
13 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
wrong (especially moral)
Strong's KJV usage: fault, wickedly(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 9:4Strong's last: Malachi 3:15
Open full H7564 profile →עֶוֶל
ʻevel · eh'-vel
7 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
(moral) evil
Strong's KJV usage: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 7:10Strong's last: Psalms 89:22
Open full H5766 profile →πονηρία
ponēría · pon-ay-ree'-ah
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins
Strong's KJV usage: :--iniquity, wickedness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 22:18Strong's last: Ephesians 6:12
Open full G4189 profile →זִמָּה
zimmâh · zim-maw'
4 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: Leviticus 18:17Strong's last: Leviticus 20:14
Open full H2154 profile →הַוָּה
havvâh · hav-vaw'
3 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
Strong's KJV usage: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 5:9Strong's last: Psalms 55:11
Open full H1942 profile →רֹעַ
rôaʻ · ro'-ah
3 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.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:20Strong's last: Hosea 9:15
Open full H7455 profile →אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
2 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: Job 11:11Strong's last: Proverbs 30:20
Open full H205 profile →ἐν
en · en
1 times translated as this KJV form2,665 total Strong's occurrences
"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 →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: Acts 8:22Strong's last: Acts 8:22
Open full G2549 profile →πονηρός
ponērós · pon-ay-ros'
1 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: 1 John 5:19Strong's last: 1 John 5:19
Open full G4190 profile →עָמָל
ʻâmâl · aw-mawl'
1 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 4:8Strong's last: Job 4:8
Open full H5999 profile →רָשַׁע
râshaʻ · raw-shah'
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
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).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 8:47Strong's last: 1 Kings 8:47
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H7451
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
H7562
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
H7562
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
H7562
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
H7564
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
H7562
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
H7564
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
H7451
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
H7562
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
H7451
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
H7451
Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
H205
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
H7562
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
H7451
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
H7562
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
H7562
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
H7564
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
H7451
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
H7562
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
H7562
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
H7451
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
H7451
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
H7451
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
H7451
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
H7451
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
English meaning and historical usage.
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wickedness
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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