Words the Bible translates as calamity
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
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- bad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
- morally evil: conduct, intent, or persons that are wrong in the sight of God, the opposite of what is good
- edאֵידdisaster: a sudden, crushing catastrophe that overtakes a person or a nation, often the appointed day of their downfall
- havvahהַוָּהgreedy craving: a grasping, self-serving desire, almost always the wicked's
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- destruction: engulfing ruin, whether a disaster that swallows a victim or the deadly harm people scheme against one another
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- massahמַסָּהa testing, a trial: an ordeal that forces out into the open what someone or something is really made of
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- despair: hope draining away until a person has no courage left
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