רָשָׁעrâshâʻ
wicked, criminal
Pronunciation: raw-shaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7563
Meanings
1. usually as substantive, one guilty of crime, deserving punishment (Exodus 2:13; Exodus 23:1; Deuteronomy 25:2)
2. guilty of hostility to God or his people, wicked enemies (Psalms 17:13; Isaiah 26:10; Psalms 9:6)
3. guilty of sin, against either God or man, wicked (Numbers 16:26; Malachi 3:18; Ezekiel 3:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 263 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:23 Abraham approached him and said, “Will you sweep away both the righteous and the wicked?
- Genesis 18:25 Surely you wouldn’t do such a thing, destroying the righteous along with the wicked. Why, you would be treating the righteous and the wicked exactly the same! Surely you wouldn’t do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
- Exodus 2:13 The next day, when Moses went out to visit his people again, he saw two Hebrew men fighting. “Why are you beating up your friend?” Moses said to the one who had started the fight.
- Exodus 9:27 Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he confessed. “The Lord is the righteous one, and my people and I are wrong.
- Exodus 23:1 “You must not pass along false rumors. You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand.
- Exodus 23:7 “Be sure never to charge anyone falsely with evil. Never sentence an innocent or blameless person to death, for I never declare a guilty person to be innocent.
See every passage
- Genesis 18:23, 18:25
- Exodus 2:13, 9:27, 23:1, 23:7
- Numbers 16:26, 35:31
- Deuteronomy 25:1, 25:2
- 1 Samuel 2:9, 24:13
- 2 Samuel 4:11
- 1 Kings 8:32
- 2 Chronicles 6:23, 19:2
- Job 3:17, 8:22, 9:22, 9:24, 10:3, 11:20, 15:20, 16:11, 18:5, 20:5, 20:29, 21:7, 21:16, 21:17, 21:28, 22:18, 24:6, 27:7, 27:13, 34:18, 34:26, 36:6, 36:17, 38:13, 38:15, 40:12
- Psalms 1:1, 1:4, 1:5, 1:6, 3:7, 7:9, 9:5, 9:16, 9:17, 10:2, 10:3, 10:4, 10:13, 10:15, 11:2, 11:5, 11:6, 12:8, 17:9, 17:13, 26:5, 28:3, 31:17, 32:10, 34:21, 36:1, 36:11, 37:10, 37:12, 37:14, 37:16, 37:17, 37:20, 37:21, 37:28, 37:32, 37:34, 37:35, 37:38, 37:40, 39:1, 50:16, 55:3, 58:3, 58:10, 68:2, 71:4, 73:3, 73:12, 75:4, 75:8, 75:10, 82:2, 82:4, 91:8, 92:7, 94:3, 94:13, 97:10, 101:8, 104:35, 106:18, 109:2, 109:6, 109:7, 112:10, 119:53, 119:61, 119:95, 119:110, 119:119, 119:155, 129:4, 139:19, 140:4, 140:8, 141:10, 145:20, 146:9, 147:6
- Proverbs 2:22, 3:25, 3:33, 4:14, 4:19, 5:22, 9:7, 10:3, 10:6, 10:7, 10:11, 10:16, 10:20, 10:24, 10:25, 10:27, 10:28, 10:30, 10:32, 11:5, 11:7, 11:8, 11:10, 11:11, 11:18, 11:23, 11:31, 12:5, 12:6, 12:7, 12:10, 12:12, 12:21, 12:26, 13:5, 13:9, 13:17, 13:25, 14:11, 14:19, 14:32, 15:6, 15:8, 15:9, 15:28, 15:29, 16:4, 17:15, 17:23, 18:3, 18:5, 19:28, 20:26, 21:4, 21:7, 21:10, 21:12, 21:18, 21:27, 21:29, 24:15, 24:16, 24:19, 24:20, 24:24, 25:5, 25:26, 28:1, 28:4, 28:12, 28:15, 28:28, 29:2, 29:7, 29:12, 29:16, 29:27
- Ecclesiastes 3:17, 7:15, 8:10, 8:13, 8:14, 9:2
- Isaiah 3:11, 5:23, 11:4, 13:11, 14:5, 26:10, 48:22, 53:9, 55:7, 57:20, 57:21
- Jeremiah 5:26, 12:1, 23:19, 25:31, 30:23
- Ezekiel 3:18, 3:19, 7:21, 13:22, 18:20, 18:21, 18:23, 18:24, 18:27, 21:3, 21:4, 21:25, 21:29, 33:8, 33:9, 33:11, 33:12, 33:14, 33:15, 33:19
- Daniel 12:10
- Micah 6:10
- Habakkuk 1:4, 1:13, 3:13
- Zephaniah 1:3
- Malachi 3:18, 4:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).