Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
wickedness
Usage: 1) wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (in civil relations) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)
Rishah means “fault” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7564 רִשׁעָה (rish`ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. rish`ah (rish-aw') n-f. 1. wrong (especially moral) [feminine of H7562] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include fault and wickedly. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
rish`ah (rish-aw') n-f. 1. wrong (especially moral) [feminine of H7562] KJV: fault, wickedly(-ness). Root(s): H7562
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wickedness
Usage: 1) wickedness, guilt 1a) wickedness (in civil relations) 1b) wickedness (of enemies) 1c) wickedness (ethical and religious)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rish`ah, 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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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7564.
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
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.
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7564, grouped by book.
Rishah (Strong's H7564) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fault". rish`ah (rish-aw') n-f. 1. wrong (especially moral) [feminine of H7562]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H7564 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7564 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fault and wickedly. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.