κακοήθεια
kakoḗtheia · G2550 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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evil disposition, malice
An evil disposition leading one to habitually engage in malicious acts
ExamplesRomans 1:29 people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πονηρία ponēría · G4189 · wickedness, wicked deeds, doing evil things
- πονηρία denotes active wickedness and malicious intent, closely related to κακοήθεια's sense of malicious character; both appear in vice lists (cf. Romans 1:29 where κακοήθεια appears alongside πονηρία's cognates) and describe disposition toward evil, though πονηρία emphasizes active malice while κακοήθεια emphasizes the underlying malicious character.
Contrasting words 2 words
- ἀγαθωσύνη agathōsýnē · G19 · good, goodness, good act
- ἀγαθωσύνη denotes goodness of character and moral uprightness, serving as the direct lexical opposite to κακοήθεια's sense of bad character and malicious disposition; both describe fundamental moral character, one good and one evil.
- χρηστότης chrēstótēs · G5544 · that which is useful, what is benevolent, benevolence
- χρηστότης denotes kindness and benevolent disposition, standing as the opposite of κακοήθεια's malicious character; where κακοήθεια involves intent to harm, χρηστότης involves intent to benefit.
In the other Testament 1 word
- זִמָּה zimmâh · H2154 · plan, depravity, wickedness
- Hebrew זִמָּה denotes wicked scheming, evil intent, and mischievous purpose, overlapping semantically with κακοήθεια's sense of malicious character and mischievousness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evil disposition, malice88.113
- In Romans 1:29, the same list of vices names people “filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice,” using this word for a settled disposition toward malicious wrongdoing.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (κακοηθια WH; see Iota), κακοηθείας, ἡ (from κακοήθης, and this from κακός and ἦθος), bad…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), 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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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