Occurrences
Rishʻâh occurs 15 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (3), Proverbs (2), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (5), Zechariah (1), Malachi (3)
- Deuteronomy 9:4 — Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness (וּבְרִשְׁעַת֙) of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
- Deuteronomy 9:5 — Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness (בְּרִשְׁעַ֣ת) of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 25:2 — And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault (רִשְׁעָת֖וֹ), by a certain number.
- Proverbs 11:5 — The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness (וּ֝בְרִשְׁעָת֗וֹ).
- Proverbs 13:6 — Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness (וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗ה) overthroweth the sinner.
- Isaiah 9:18 — For wickedness (רִשְׁעָ֔ה) burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
- Ezekiel 5:6 — And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness (לְרִשְׁעָה֙) more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
- Ezekiel 18:20 — The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness (וְרִשְׁעַ֥ת) of the wicked shall be upon him.
- Ezekiel 18:27 — Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness (מֵֽרִשְׁעָתוֹ֙) that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
- Ezekiel 33:12 — Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness (וְרִשְׁעַ֤ת) of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
- Ezekiel 33:19 — But if the wicked turn from his wickedness (מֵֽרִשְׁעָת֔וֹ), and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
- Zechariah 5:8 — And he said, This is wickedness (הָרִשְׁעָ֔ה). And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
- Malachi 1:4 — Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness (רִשְׁעָ֔ה), and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
- Malachi 3:15 — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness (רִשְׁעָ֔ה) are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
- Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly (רִשְׁעָה֙), shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.