רַע raʻ — bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Translated in the KJV as adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease, distress, evil, man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief.
from H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral).
raʻ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 1
רָ֑ע Isa 3:11 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›