רָשַׁע râshaʻ — to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong
Translated in the KJV as condemn, make trouble, vex, be (commit, deal, depart, do) wicked(-ly, -ness).
a primitive root; to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate.
râshaʻ in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 2Participle (active) 2Jussive 1Wayyiqtol 1
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Jussive 1
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
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 ›