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φαῦλος

phaûlos · G5337 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. mean, bad, evil

    Pertaining to being evil in the sense of moral baseness

    Examples

    John 3:20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

    John 5:29 and will come out: those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the bad deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

    Romans 9:11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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.

Semantic domains 1 entry
Mean, bad, evil88.116
John 3:20 says that everyone who does “evil” hates the Light and does not come to it.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φαύλῃ, φαῦλον (akin to German faul andflau), easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of…
φαύλῃ, φαῦλον (akin to German faul andflau), easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account; ethically, bad, wicked, base (Theognis, (?), Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch): Jas 3:16; φαῦλον τί λέγειν περί τίνος, Tit 2:8; φαῦλα πράσσειν (R. V. to do ill), Jn 3:20; τά φαῦλα πράσσειν opposed to τά ἀγαθά ποιεῖν, Jn 5:29; φαῦλον (opposed to ἀγαθόν πράσσειν, Rom 9:11 L T Tr WH; 2 Cor 5:10 T Tr text WH. (See Trench, Synonyms, § lxxxiv.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Bad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging6 occurrences

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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