רֶ֫שַׁע

Deuteronomy 9:27 רִשְׁע֖וֹ wickedness its

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

1 Samuel 24:13 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

Job 34:8 רֶֽשַׁע׃ wickedness

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Job 34:10 מֵרֶ֗שַׁע from wickedness

Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

Here: 'From wickedness.' The word 'from' shows the distance: God and wrongdoing are pulled apart. Reshaʿ is the condition of the guilty party, the one in the wrong before a court. That matters in a book framed as Job's lawsuit against God.

Job 35:8 רִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ wickedness your

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

Psalm 5:4 רֶ֥שַׁע׀ wickedness

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

Here: The condition of being in the wrong, especially wrongdoing against others that a just judge would condemn. The opposite of tsedeq, being in the right. In a psalm where the speaker is under attack (vv. 6, 9–10), it carries a courtroom sense.

Psalm 10:15 רִשְׁע֥וֹ wickedness his

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

Here: "His wickedness": the guilty conduct of the man just named, from the same root as rasha'. It is what God is asked to examine and settle.

Psalm 45:7 רֶ֥שַׁע wickedness

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

Here: Wrongdoing, and the condition of being the guilty party in the wrong. It is the exact opposite of tsedeq. A just king condemns it instead of excusing it.

Psalm 84:10 רֶֽשַׁע׃ wickedness

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Here: 'Wickedness'. The word has a legal edge: the condition of being in the wrong, guilty and lawless before God. 'Tents of wickedness' are households run on that basis, however comfortable.

Psalm 125:3 הָרֶ֗שַׁע <the> wickedness

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Here: An abstract noun: 'the scepter of wickedness', meaning rule whose character is wicked. In the Psalms resha' is the conduct of people who are in the wrong, guilty before God and harmful to others.

Psalm 141:4 בְּרֶ֗שַׁע in wickedness

Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

Here: 'In wickedness': the deeds are done in a state of guilt. Resha' is the opposite of being in the right, as with the guilty party in a lawsuit.

Proverbs 4:17 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

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

Proverbs 8:7 רֶֽשַׁע׃ wickedness

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Proverbs 10:2 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Here: Wickedness. It names the source and character of the stores: wealth gained by wrongdoing or held by people in the wrong. The same phrase "treasures of wickedness" appears in Micah 6:10, where the wealth comes from false measures and rigged scales.

Proverbs 12:3 בְּרֶ֑שַׁע by wickedness

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

Here: The prefix bᵉ- means 'by, through'. Wickedness is pictured as a means: the fraud, violence or crooked dealing someone uses to get ahead. The verse says this tool cannot give a person secure footing.

Proverbs 16:12 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

Here: Conduct that puts a person in the wrong: injustice, fraud, oppression, the behavior of the 'guilty party'. With a king in view it means above all abuse of power and corrupt judgment.

Ecclesiastes 3:16 הָרֶ֔שַׁע הָרָֽשַׁע׃ <the> wickedness

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Here: In a court setting this is the opposite of a just verdict: guilt that goes unpunished, the guilty side winning, corruption sitting where justice should sit.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 רֶ֣שַׁע wickedness

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Here: Wrongdoing in the sense of being in the wrong before justice, the condition of the guilty party. Here it is the first thing placed under examination.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 רֶ֖שַׁע wickedness

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Here: Wrongdoing, especially the ruthless, unjust kind that the powerful use. It is treated almost like a person, a patron who is expected to protect its clients.

Isaiah 58:4 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:6 רֶ֔שַׁע wickedness

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Here: Describes the fetters: they are wrongful, unjust, the product of being in the wrong toward others. These are bonds that should never have been fastened.

Jeremiah 14:20 רִשְׁעֵ֖נוּ wickedness our

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

Here: 'Our being in the wrong.' The root is the legal opposite of being righteous (in the right): it marks the guilty party in a dispute. The people admit that in their case against God, they are the ones at fault.

Ezekiel 3:19 מֵֽרִשְׁע֔וֹ from wickedness his

But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

Here: 'From his wickedness': the guilty, wrong-doing character of his life. It shares a root with rasha', so the wording rings with the same sound: the guilty man, his guilt, his guilty way.

Ezekiel 7:11 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

Ezekiel 31:11 כְּרִשְׁע֖וֹ according to wickedness its

I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

Ezekiel 33:12 מֵֽרִשְׁע֑וֹ from wickedness his

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

Here: He turns away from the wrongdoing that has defined him.

Hosea 10:13 רֶ֛שַׁע wickedness

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Here: The thing they plowed into the ground. The word has a courtroom feel: being in the wrong, guilty wrongdoing against others. It is the exact opposite of the 'righteousness' (tsedaqah) they were told to sow in verse 12.

Micah 6:10 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

Here: The abstract noun from the same root as rāšāʿ: "stores of wrong", wealth that exists because of the wrongdoing. The guilty man's house holds the guilty man's hoard; the repeated sound makes the point that house and wealth are both corrupt.

Micah 6:11 רֶ֑שַׁע wickedness

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?