κακοῦργος
kakoûrgos · G2557 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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wrongdoer, evildoer, bad person
One who customarily engages in doing what is bad
ExamplesLuke 23:32 Now two others, who were criminals, were also being led away to be put to death with Him.
Luke 23:33 And when they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified Him and the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
Luke 23:39 One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, “Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- δύοtwo 1
- ἕτεροςother, another, different 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀναιρέωto kill, to execute 1
- ἄγωto bring, to lead 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σταυρόωto crucify 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- πονηρός ponērós · G4190 · immoral, evil, wicked
- πονηρός when used substantively refers to an evil or wicked person, overlapping semantically with κακοῦργος but with broader application beyond criminal activity specifically, encompassing moral wickedness generally.
- ἄνομος ánomos · G459 · lawless, without the Law
- ἄνομος denotes one who is lawless or operates outside the law, very close in sense to κακοῦργος as a criminal or wrongdoer, though ἄνομος emphasizes the lawless character while κακοῦργος emphasizes the evil acts committed.
- ἁμαρτωλός hamartōlós · G268 · sinful, sinning, sinner
- ἁμαρτωλός refers to a sinner or one who transgresses divine law; while broader than κακοῦργος (which specifically denotes a criminal), both terms denote persons characterized by wrongdoing.
In the other Testament 1 word
- רָשָׁע râshâʻ · H7563 · wicked, evil, guilty, in the wrong
- רָשָׁע is the standard Hebrew term for a wicked person or wrongdoer, making it the natural translation equivalent for κακοῦργος in LXX and NT contexts referring to criminals or evildoers.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wrongdoer, evildoer, bad person88.114
- In Luke 23:32, at the crucifixion it is written, “two others, who were criminals, were also being led away to be put to death with Him,” using this word for a person guilty of serious wrongdoing.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κακουργον (contracted from κακοεργος, from κακόν and ἘΡΓΩ; cf. πανοῦργος, and on the…
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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