κακοποιέω
kakopoiéō · G2554 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to do evil, to do wrong
To do that which is evil or wrong
ExamplesMark 3:4 And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.
Luke 6:9 And Jesus said to them, “I ask you whether it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to destroy it?”
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- Not stated (participle) 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁράωto see 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To harm, to hurt, to injure20.12
- In Mark 3:4, before healing the man with the withered hand, Jesus asks, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” using this word for the act of inflicting harm.
- To do evil, to do wrong88.112
- In 1 Peter 3:17, believers are told it is better to suffer “for doing what is right rather than for doing evil,” using this word for the act of committing moral wrong.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κακοποιῶ; 1 aorist infinitive κακοποιῆσαι; (κακοποιός); 1. to do harm: Mk 3:4; Lk 6:9. 2.…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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