Cribbing from the Church of God folks:

"Many Hebrew words have a broad range of meanings. While the Hebrew word translated “evil” in the King James Version usually refers to unethical or immoral activity, it can also mean times of distress (Amos 6:3) and is sometimes contrasted with shalom (peace). "

Part of hermeneutics (love that word) is getting the nuance in the translation right, not the easiest thing even among romance languages.

Think mebbie those ragheads had rabbis?


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.