properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
The corpus record — Hebrew
תָּרֵֽעוּ
raa
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good fornothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 102 · 3.32/10k
Senses
Attestations
- תָּרֵֽעוּ Genesis 19:7 (BHS)
- נָרַ֥ע Genesis 19:9 (BHS)
- וַ/יֵּ֧רַע Genesis 21:11 (BHS)
- יֵרַ֤ע Genesis 21:12 (BHS)
- לְ/הָרַ֖ע Genesis 31:7 (BHS)
- וַ/יֵּ֛רַע Genesis 38:10 (BHS)
6 of 102 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.