Proverbs 15:29, "Yahweh is far from the
wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous."
wicked is word #7563 - rasharasha: wicked, criminal
Original Word: רָשָׁע
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: rasha
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-shaw')
Short Definition: wicked
Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)
1) wicked, criminal 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst) 1b) wicked (hostile to God) 1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)
Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)
From
H7561; morally
wrong; concretely an (actively)
bad person:— + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
wicked (adj.)
c.1200, extended form of earlier wick "bad, wicked, false" (12c.), which apparently is an adjectival use of Old English wicca "wizard" (see
wicca). Formed as if a past participle, but there is no corresponding verb. For evolution, compare
wretched from
wretch. Slang ironic sense of "wonderful" first attested 1920, in F. Scott Fitzgerald. As an adverb from early 15c. Related: Wickedly.
wick (n.1)
"bundle of fiber in a lamp or candle," 17c. spelling alteration of wueke, from Old English weoce "wick of a lamp or candle," from West Germanic *weukon (cognates: Middle Dutch wieke, Dutch wiek, Old High German wiohha, German Wieche), of unknown origin, with no known cognates beyond Germanic. To dip one's wick "engage in sexual intercourse" (in reference to males) is recorded from 1958, perhaps from Hampton Wick, rhyming slang for "prick," which would connect it rather to
wick (n.2).