Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
wickedness
Usage: 1) wrong, wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (as violence and crime against civil law) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (in ethical relations)
Resha means “iniquity” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7562 רֶשַׁע (resha`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. resha` (reh'-shah) n-m. 1. a wrong (especially moral) [from H7561] It has 29 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include iniquity and wicked. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
resha` (reh'-shah) n-m. 1. a wrong (especially moral) [from H7561] KJV: iniquity, wicked(-ness). Root(s): H7561
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wickedness
Usage: 1) wrong, wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (as violence and crime against civil law) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (in ethical relations)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render resha`, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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29 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
First 29 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7562.
Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7562, grouped by book.
Resha (Strong's H7562) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "iniquity". resha` (reh'-shah) n-m. 1. a wrong (especially moral) [from H7561]
This page currently indexes 29 linked usages for Strong's H7562 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7562 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as iniquity and wicked. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.