Lexical Summary roa: badness, evil Original Word: רֹעַTransliteration: roa Phonetic Spelling: (ro'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: badness, evil Meaning: badness, evil Strong's Concordance be so bad, badness, be so evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness From ra'a'; badness (as marring), physically or morally -- X be so bad, badness, (X be so) evil, naughtiness, sadness, sorrow, wickedness. see HEBREW ra'a' Brown-Driver-Briggs H7455. roa רֹעַ noun [masculine] badness, evil; — ׳ר absolute Genesis 41:19 4t. Jeremiah; construct Hosea 9:15 13t.; — 1 badness, bad quality, of cattle Genesis 41:19 (E), figs Jeremiah 24:2-3, 8; 29:17. 2 wilfulness, לבב רֹעַ 1 Samuel 17:28 (Gerber161makes 2 and 4 [infinitive of] verb). 3 ethical, evil, badness, only in phrase: מעללים רֹעַ evil of doings Deuteronomy 28:20; Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 4:4; 21:12; 23:2, 22; 25:5; 26:3; 44:22; Hosea 9:15; Psalm 28:4 (compare מעללים רַע 1 Samuel 25:3). 4 sadness, ׳ר מָּנִים Ecclesiastes 7:3, ׳ר לֵב Nehemiah 2:3 (compare [רָעַע] 2). |