Definition

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• afflict
• associate selves (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה))
• break (down
• in pieces)
• displease
• (be
• bring
• do) evil (doer
• entreat
• man)
• show self friendly (by mistake for H7462 (רָעָה))
• do harm
• (do) hurt
• (behave self
• deal) ill
• indeed
• do mischief
• punish
• still
• vex
• (do) wicked (doer
• -ly)
• be (deal
• do) worse

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.