1 Kings 16:25:31 Kgs.16.25.W3TAB
הָרַ֖ע
hara
“the evil”
- Transliteration
- ha-RA
- Extended
- haa-RAH
- IPA
- /haːˈraʕ/
Meaning by language
- English
- the evil
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ha-RA
- clause
va-ya-A-SE om-re-I ha-RA be-e-NE ye-ho-VAH
- sentence
va-ya-A-SE om-re-I ha-RA be-e-NE ye-ho-VAH va-ya-RA mi-KOL a-SHER le-fa-NAIV
Exegesis
The phrase hā-rā‘ be-‘ē-nê YHWH {הָרַע בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה | hā-rā‘ bə-‘ē-nê Yə-hō-wāh} ‘evil in the eyes of the LORD’ employs the idiom be-‘ē-nê {בְּעֵינֵי | bə-‘ē-nê} ‘in the eyes of’ with a divine name to express moral assessment.
Root and etymology
consonants
“bad, evil”
In context — 1 Kings 16:25
And Omri did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD , and he acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
About this coordinate
1 Kings 16:25:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of 1 Kings 16:25, so the Hebrew word הָרַ֖ע (hara) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Kgs.16.25.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Kgs.16.25.W3.S1) and character.