risha · wickedness

What it means

risha (רִשְׁעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wickedness”.

Unjust and evil conduct.

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. Unjust conduct.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×3

• Deuteronomy 9:4

  Do not say in your heart, when YHWH your Elohim pushes them out from before you, saying, “Because of my righteousness YHWH has brought me in to take possession of this land”; but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH is dispossessing them from before you.

• Deuteronomy 9:5

  Not because of your righteousness or because of the uprightness of your heart are you going in to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH your Elohim is dispossessing them from before you, and in order to establish the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Deuteronomy 25:2

  Then it shall be, if the wicked one deserves to be struck, that the judge shall make him lie down and have him struck before him according to his wickedness, by number.

• Proverbs 11:5

  The righteousness of the blameless makes his way straight, but by his wickedness the wicked will fall.

• Proverbs 13:6

  Righteousness guards the one blameless in his way, but wickedness perverts the sinner.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.

• Ezekiel 5:6

  And it rebelled against my rules with wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the lands that are around it; for my rules they rejected, and as for my statutes, they did not walk in them.”

• Ezekiel 18:20

  The soul who sins, it will die. The son will not bear the iniquity of the father, nor will the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous will be on himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be on himself.

• Ezekiel 18:27

  And when a wicked man turns from his wickedness that he has done, and does justice and righteousness, he will keep his soul alive.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 33:19

  And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does justice and righteousness, by them he will live.

• Zechariah 5:8

  And he said, “This is wickedness.” And he threw her into the midst of the ephah, and threw the stone of lead on its mouth.

• Malachi 1:4

  If Edom says, “We have been shattered, but we will return and build the ruins,” thus says YHWH Tsevaot: They will build, but I will tear down; and they will call them “Territory of wickedness” and “the people against whom YHWH is indignant forever.”

• Malachi 3:15

  And now we call happy the insolent; also those who do wickedness are built up; also they test Elohim and escape.”

• Malachi 4:1

  For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.