מִרְשַׁעַת
mirshaʻath · H4849 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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wicked woman
A reference to Queen Ataliah characterizing her as a woman without any respect for the law of God
Examples2 Chronicles 24:7 For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God, and even used the holy things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲתַלְיָהAthaliah 1
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Contrasting words 1 word
- צַדִּיק tsaddîyq · H6662 · righteous, just, right
- Standard lexical opposite of רָשָׁע 'wicked' in Hebrew; the feminine form צַדֶּקֶת or צְדָקָה would semantically oppose מִרְשַׁעַת as 'righteous woman' stands opposite to 'wicked woman' in the moral-ethical domain.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πονηρός ponērós · G4190 · immoral, evil, wicked
- Greek adjective meaning 'wicked, evil, bad' used substantively for wicked persons; the standard LXX rendering of רָשָׁע and its derivatives, would naturally translate this feminine nominal form denoting a wicked woman.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Titles003001017
- The word denotes "a wicked woman," a descriptive designation applied to a particular category of person.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4849. mirshaath מִרְשַׁ֫עַת noun feminine wickedness; — absolute ׳הַמּ2Ch 24:7 Athaliazh…
מִרְשַׁ֫עַת noun feminine wickedness; — absolute ׳הַמּ2Ch 24:7 Athaliazh the (embodied) wickedness
רִשְׁעָתַיִם see ר ׳כּוּשַׁן
רשׁף (√ of following; Samaritan irritavit, incendit; Late Hebrew רֶשֶׁף flame, Ecclus 43:17c רשׁף lightining-flame (? si vera lectio); Jewish-Aramaic רִשְׁמֶּא flame; רשף as proper name, of divinity in Old Aramaic and Phoenician Lzbl54. 370 PietschmPhön. 150 ff. EmeyZMG xxxi (1877), 719 Nöib. xlil (1888), 473 SpiegelbZA xiii (1898), 121 Lzbib. 328 WMMAs.u. Eur.311 ff. GACookeInscr. 56 f.).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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