ῥᾳδιουργία
rhaidiourgía · G4468 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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wrongdoing, unscrupulousness
To violate moral principles by acting in an unscrupulous manner
ExamplesActs 13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 words
- πονηρία ponēría · G4189 · wickedness, wicked deeds, doing evil things
- Greek noun denoting malice and wickedness, overlapping with the malignity sense of ῥᾳδιουργία; both describe morally corrupt and malicious conduct, though πονηρία is broader and more common while ῥᾳδιουργία emphasizes reckless unscrupulousness
- κακία kakía · G2549 · wickedness, evil, badness
- Greek noun for badness and malignity, sharing the sense of malicious, unscrupulous behavior with ῥᾳδιουργία; both describe morally wrong conduct, though κακία is more general while ῥᾳδιουργία carries connotations of reckless criminality
Contrasting words 1 word
- δικαιοσύνη dikaiosýnē · G1343 · righteousness, doing what God requires, doing what is right
- Greek noun for righteousness and just conduct, serving as the moral opposite of the reckless malignity of ῥᾳδιουργία; righteousness vs. wickedness/wrongdoing is a fundamental biblical lexical antithesis
In the other Testament 1 word
- מִרְמָה mirmâh · H4820 · falsehood, deceit, treachery
- Hebrew noun denoting deceit and treacherous behavior, corresponding to the malicious, unscrupulous conduct implied by ῥᾳδιουργία; both terms describe morally corrupt, deceptive practices
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wrongdoing, unscrupulousness88.301
- The noun likewise names unscrupulous wrongdoing. Paul confronts the sorcerer Elymas: “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?” (Acts 13:10).
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῤᾳδιουργίας, ἡ (see ῤᾳδιούργημα, cf. πανουργία); 1. properly, ease in doing, facility. 2.…
1. properly, ease in doing, facility.
2. levity or easiness in thinking and acting; love of a lazy and effeminate life (Xenophon).
3. unscrupulousness, cunning, mischief (A. V. villany): Acts 13:10. (Polybius 12, 10, 5; often in Plutarch.)
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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