רָעָה râʻâh

Meaning

to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)

In the King James Version: [idiom] break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, [phrase] shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 4:2 Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
• Genesis 13:7 And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
• Genesis 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.
• Genesis 26:20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
• Genesis 29:7 “Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
• Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
• Genesis 30:31 “What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
• Genesis 30:36 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
• Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
• Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
• Genesis 37:12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
• Genesis 37:13 Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
• Genesis 37:16 “I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
• Genesis 41:2 when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 41:18 when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 46:32 The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’
• Genesis 46:34 you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
• Genesis 47:3 “What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
• Genesis 48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
• Genesis 49:24 Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
• Exodus 2:17 And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.
• Exodus 2:19 “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
• Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
• Exodus 34:3 No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
• Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
• Numbers 27:17 who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
• Judges 14:20 and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
• 1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
• 1 Samuel 17:15 but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
• 1 Samuel 17:34 David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
• 1 Samuel 17:40 And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.
• 1 Samuel 21:7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
• 1 Samuel 25:7 Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
• 1 Samuel 25:16 They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
• 2 Samuel 5:2 Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
• 2 Samuel 7:7 In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people Israel, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
• 2 Samuel 24:17 When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
• 1 Kings 22:17 So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
• 2 Kings 10:12 Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
• 1 Chronicles 11:2 Even in times past, while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And the LORD your God said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”
• 1 Chronicles 17:6 In all My journeys with all the Israelites, have I ever asked any of the leaders I appointed to shepherd My people, ‘Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?’
• 1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
• 1 Chronicles 27:29 Shitrai the Sharonite was in charge of the herds grazing in Sharon. Shaphat son of Adlai was in charge of the herds in the valleys.
• 2 Chronicles 18:16 So Micaiah declared: “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These people have no master; let each one return home in peace.’”
• Job 1:14 a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
• Job 24:2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
• Job 24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
• Psalms 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
• Psalms 28:9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
• Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
• Psalms 49:14 Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
• Psalms 78:71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
• Psalms 78:72 So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.
• Psalms 80:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
• Psalms 80:13 The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
• Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
• Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
• Proverbs 15:14 A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
• Proverbs 22:24 Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,
• Proverbs 28:7 A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.