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רָעַע

to do evil

‘to do evil’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H7489 Strong's Hebrew
râʻaʻ Transliteration
/raw-ah'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 102 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.
Adjective
A word that describes or qualifies a noun.

Stem

Hiphil
The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘do an injury’
Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘be displeasing’
Niphal
Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”). Here: ‘suffer hurt’
Hithpolel
The reflexive counterpart of the Polel.

Form

Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
Sequential Perfect
A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Singular
One.

14 verses where H7489 appears in the Hiphil stem in the Book of Psalms. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

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