resha · wickedness

What it means

resha (רֶשַׁע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wickedness”.

What is unjust and evil.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is unjust and evil.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Hosea×1
• Micah×2

• Deuteronomy 9:27

  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not turn to the hardness of this people, or to its wickedness, or to its sin,

• 1 Samuel 24:13

  As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘From the wicked comes wickedness’; but my hand shall not be against you.

• Job 34:8

  and goes in company with those who work wickedness, and walks with men of wickedness?

• Job 34:10

  Therefore, men of heart, listen to me: far be it from El to do wickedness, and from Shaddai to do injustice.

• Job 35:8

  To a man like yourself is your wickedness, and to a son of man your righteousness.

• Psalms 5:4

  For you are not an El who delights in wickedness; evil does not reside with you.

• Psalms 10:15

  Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; demand an accounting for his wickedness until you find none of it.

• Psalms 45:7

  You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore Elohim, your Elohim, has anointed you with the oil of joy beyond your companions.

• Psalms 84:10

  For better is a day in your courts than a thousand; I have chosen to stand at the threshold of the house of my Elohim rather than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

• Psalms 125:3

  For the scepter of wickedness will not rest upon the lot of the righteous, so that the righteous will not stretch out their hands to injustice.

• Psalms 141:4

  Do not incline my heart to an evil thing, to practice deeds in wickedness with men who work wickedness; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

• Proverbs 4:17

  For they eat the bread of wickedness, and the wine of violence they drink.

• Proverbs 8:7

  For my palate will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

• Proverbs 10:2

  Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness rescues from death.

• Proverbs 12:3

  A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

• Proverbs 16:12

  An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, for by righteousness a throne is established.

• Ecclesiastes 3:16

  And I saw further under the sun: the place of justice— there was wickedness; and the place of righteousness— there was wickedness.

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  I turned, I and my heart, to know and to explore and to seek wisdom and the reckoning, and to know the wickedness of senselessness and the witlessness of madness.

• Ecclesiastes 8:8

  There is no human being with power over the breath to retain the breath, nor is there power over the day of death, nor is there discharge in war, nor will wickedness deliver its owners.

• Isaiah 58:4

  Look, for strife and contention you fast, and to strike with a fist of wickedness; do not fast as you do today to make your voice heard on high.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Jeremiah 14:20

  We acknowledge, YHWH, our wickedness, the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.

• Ezekiel 3:19

  But you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

• Ezekiel 7:11

  Violence has risen into a rod of wickedness; nothing of them, and nothing of their multitude, and nothing of their wealth, and no lament for them.

• Ezekiel 31:11

  I will give it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he will surely deal with it according to its wickedness; I have driven it out.

• Ezekiel 33:12

  And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him on the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble by it on the day he turns from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day he sins.

• Hosea 10:13

  You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lying; for you have trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

• Micah 6:10

  Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the scant ephah that provokes indignation?

• Micah 6:11

  Shall I be pure with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

And 1 more times.