1602 occurrences in 13 translations

'Evil' in the Bible

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Verse ConceptsKnowledge Of Good And EvilSprouting PlantsMetaphorical TreesKnowingSproutingBeauty Of ThingsFood DefinedKnowing Right And WrongHealing Of NationsAdam and eve disobey godnatural LifeBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Nature

These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, With GodFaithfulness, Examples OfBefore The FloodInnocence, Examples OfTravelling With GodRighteousness, Of BelieversSin, Universality OfSpiritualityWalkingCharacter Of SaintsCommunion With God, Examples OfWalking With GodA Mans ReputationPeople Who Did RightGodly Man

And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityEvil TimesGod Seeing The WickedMan's Sinful NatureAll Have Sinnedcorruption

And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessOutcry

He said, “Don’t do this evil, my brothers.

And they say, 'Come nigh hither;' they say also, 'This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Verse ConceptsKindnessPeople's Inability To SaveEscaping To MountainsPossibility Of DeathGod Showed His LovingkindnessUnable To Save

The situation distressed Abraham greatly because of his son [Ishmael].

God said to Abraham, “Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah.'

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianNot TouchingGoing In PeaceBlessed By God

and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTroubling Individualshumor

And God cometh in unto Laban the Aramaean in a dream of the night, and saith to him, 'Take heed to thyself lest thou speak with Jacob from good unto evil.'

Verse ConceptsDreamsDreams, Examples OfNightSpeech, DivineWarning IndividualsDirect Communication Through Dreams

It's actually in my power to do some serious evil to you, but last night the God of your father told me, "Be careful what you say to Jacob whether good or evil.'

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsPeople Possibly Doing EvilPowerHurtParents Being Wronghurting

this heap is witness, and the standing pillar is witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

Verse ConceptsPassing ByObelisksCairnsThings As Witnesses

So they gave Jacob all the [idols and images of the] foreign gods they had and the rings which were in their ears [worn as charms against evil], and Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesFine ClothesAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals Devouring

Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the Lord’s sight, and the Lord put him to death.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfWhat Sin?

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

Verse ConceptsPartialityFear Of Other Things

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpying

And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil designs;

Verse ConceptsSpying

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

And Israel saith, 'Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Verse ConceptsIngratitudePeople Not Far AwayRepaying Evil For Good

Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolAfflicted To DeathGrey

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

Verse ConceptsAsking for forgivenessAskingForgive One AnotherWronging Other PeopleGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgivingdisobedience

And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.

Verse ConceptsNo ReductionTroubling Groups Of People

And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

Verse ConceptsGod Sending ProphetsGod TroublingWhy Does God Do This?

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing Evil

Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.

Verse ConceptsSheepAnger Of God, Examples OfPower Of God, Expressed

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouWronging Other People

Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfHasty ActionKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambPlaguesPassing OverBlood On The DoorThings As SignsAnimals Serving Human NeedsBloodThe Blood Of Jesus

But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them.

Verse ConceptsInsectsSmellsMaggotsFood DecayingNamed People Angry With Othersworms

if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

Verse ConceptsAltars, UsesDeath penaltyKillingMurderManslaughterAsylumAmbushUnintentional

If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombUnborn FetusesLawsuitsAccidental KillingsJudicial PunishmentFighting One AnotherstruggleHurt

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

Verse ConceptsSin, Causes OfTrapWorldly SnaresWarnings Of Evil AssociationsEvil TrappingLiving In The LandPenalties For Serving Other GodsThe Entrance Of Sin

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

Verse ConceptsWorseGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptStruggles In Relationship

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Verse ConceptsGod Changing His MindGod Might Kill His PeopleGod Turned Back From Harming ThemLet Not God Be AngryGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

“Don’t be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

Verse ConceptsKnowing PeopleGod's People Sinning

And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever has done evil against me will be taken out of my book.

Verse ConceptsBlotted OutObliterationSin Separates From God

And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

Verse ConceptsMourningPeople Stripping Off

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardPunishment, Nature OfUnforgivenessParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving God

Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

Verse ConceptsCarelessnessOaths, HumanAbsence Of ThoughtSin Made KnownSwearing Oaths FalselyRash PeopleSwearing

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsSwearing Oaths FalselyAvoiding Deceitlosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneBeing LostFeeling LostSwearingLoss Of A Loved OneLosing Someone

And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.

Verse ConceptsApostasy in OTFalse ReligionThey Committed ImmoralityOccultism Being Forbidden

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

Verse ConceptsAngerConfrontationChallengesIncurring GuiltParticipation, In SinRebukeLove To Others Shown InDuties To NeighboursReproving PeopleGuiltSibling Love

Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionGod OpposingThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelDeath Penalty For Heresy

And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFamiliar SpiritsMediumsSeeking GodSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsOccultismWitchcraftDivinationFortunetellingNecromancyGod OpposingAvoid SpiritismThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelDeath Penalty For Heresypsychics

And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, Examples OfGod, The LordProfaning God's NameCursing God

And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyStrangersProfaning God's NameForeigners Included In The LawInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

Verse ConceptsSleeplessnessWild Beasts SubduedPeaceMaking Peace With EnemiesSleeping PeacefullyDivine Protection

And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

Verse ConceptsLevitesSanctuaryDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is NearPriests Atoning

And the people is evil, as those sighing habitually in the ears of Jehovah, and Jehovah heareth, and His anger burneth, and the fire of Jehovah burneth among them, and consumeth in the extremity of the camp.

Verse ConceptsBalaams Donkeydoubt, results ofFireGrudgesHearingProvoking GodResentment, Against GodAnger Of God, Examples OfDivine DispleasureDispleasureComplaintsFire From HeavenGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Will Be AngryProblem PeopleComplaining

And Moses heareth the people weeping by its families, each at the opening of his tent, and the anger of Jehovah burneth exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it is evil.

Verse ConceptsTentsGod Will Be AngryMourning In RegretNot Pleasing People

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes -- to put the burden of all this people upon me?

Verse ConceptsHeavy BurdensNot Pleasing God

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodAaron, CharacterAaron, Sins OfSecond MarriageInterracial MarriageRebellion against GodFunPatience In Relationshipsdiscriminationcriticisminterracial

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodExperience, of GodGod, Revelation OfRevelation, In OtDivine FriendshipClarityBeing Face To Face With GodThose Who Saw GodPlainnessAddressing SomeoneRevelation Through Direct CommunicationPatience In RelationshipsSpeechcriticism

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

Verse ConceptsBad Newsdoubt, results ofGiantsexploring

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Verse ConceptsFaultsGod, Patience OfHearingRejection Of GodGod, All knowingGrumblingBefore God ActsComplaining

and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness;

Verse ConceptsMonotonyUnfaithfulness, To GodParents SinDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentThose Who Kept Stock

I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Verse ConceptsDecadenceDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

After this, the men whom Moses sent out to explore the land, who returned and made the whole congregation complain against him by bringing an evil report concerning the land,

Verse ConceptsDiscontentSpying

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As Punishmentnegativity

And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

Verse ConceptsTentsFellowship With WickedEvil AssociationsSeparation From Evil PeopleNot TouchingHaving No Dealings

And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all.

And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

Verse ConceptsFruitFig treeBlamePomegranatesAssembling At The DoorwayBringing Israel Out Of EgyptNo Water For PeopleOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

The Angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBeating AnimalsActing Three TimesGod As EnemyWhy Do You Do This?

Balaam said to the Angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in Your sight, I will go back.”

Verse ConceptsAcknowledge, SinIndividuals going homeIgnorant Of FactsWe Have Sinned

He has no regard [for] evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God [is] with him, and a shout of a king [is] among them.

Verse ConceptsShoutingTheocracyGod With YouGroups ShoutingNatural Disasters

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicDivinationWhat Does God Do?SorceryEclipseisraelmagicadvertisingOccult Being Powerless Before God

"Even if Balak gives me his palace full of silver and gold, I won't double-cross the command of the LORD and do anything whether good or evil on my own initiative, because I'm going to say whatever the LORD says.'

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTGoldSupplied With MoneySpeaking The Word God Gives

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
κακός 
Kakos 
Usage: 46

κακοποιέω 
Kakopoieo 
do evil , evil doing
Usage: 2

κακόω 
Kakoo 
Usage: 5

πονηρός 
Poneros 
Usage: 36

אויל מרדך 
'Eviyl M@rodak 
Usage: 2

און 
'aven 
Usage: 79

בּליּעל 
B@liya`al 
Usage: 27

דּבּה 
Dibbah 
Usage: 9

ירע 
Yara` 
Usage: 8

רעה רע 
Ra` 
Usage: 669

רע 
Roa` 
Usage: 19

רעע 
Ra`a` 
Usage: 98

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ἀδίκημα 
Adikema 
Usage: 3

βλασφημέω 
Blasphemeo 
Usage: 31

βλασφημία 
Blasphemia 
Usage: 13

δυσφημία 
Dusphemia 
Usage: 1

κακία 
Kakia 
Usage: 10

κακολογέω 
Kakologeo 
Usage: 1

κακοποιός 
Kakopoios 
Usage: 5

κακοῦργος 
Kakourgos 
Usage: 4

κακῶς 
Kakos 
be sick 9 , be diseased 9 , evil , grievously , sore , miserable , amiss , sick people 9
Usage: 12

καταλαλέω 
Katalaleo 
Usage: 5

καταλαλία 
Katalalia 
Usage: 2

φαῦλος 
Phaulos 
Usage: 2

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