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Strong's #2556: kakos (pronounced kak-os')

apparently a primary word; worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas 4190 properly refers to effects), i.e. (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious:--bad, evil, harm, ill, noisome, wicked.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kakos

1) of a bad nature

1a) not such as it ought to be

2) of a mode of thinking, feeling, acting

2a) base, wrong, wicked

3) troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: apparently a primary word

Citing in TDNT: 3:469, 391




Usage:

This word is used 51 times:

Matthew 21:41: "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other"
Matthew 24:48: "But and if that evil servant shall say in his"
Matthew 27:23: "said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out"
Mark 7:21: "heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,"
Mark 15:14: "unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out"
Luke 16:25: "and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted,"
Luke 23:22: "the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no"
John 18:23: "bear witness of the evil: but if well, why"
Acts 9:13: "this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at"
Acts 16:28: "Do thyself no harm: for we are all here."
Acts 23:9: "saying, We find no evil in this man: but"
Acts 28:5: "fire, and felt no harm."
Romans 1:30: "proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,"
Romans 2:9: "soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and"
Romans 3:8: "that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose"
Romans 7:19: "I do not: but the evil which I would not, that"
Romans 7:21: "would do good, evil is present with me."
Romans 9:11: "any good or evil, that the purpose of God"
Romans 12:17: "Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight"
Romans 12:17: "to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all"
Romans 12:21: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with"
Romans 12:21: "evil, but overcome evil with good."
Romans 13:3: "works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid"
Romans 13:4: "But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not"
Romans 13:4: "to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."
Romans 13:10: "Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling"
Romans 14:20: "indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offense."
Romans 16:19: "unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil."
1 Corinthians 10:6: "examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also"
1 Corinthians 13:5: "easily provoked, thinketh no evil;"
1 Corinthians 15:33: "Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."
2 Corinthians 5:10: "whether it be good or bad."
2 Corinthians 13:7: "that ye do no evil; not that we"
Philippians 3:2: "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision."
Colossians 3:5: "fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which"
1 Thessalonians 5:15: "See that none render evil for evil unto any"
1 Thessalonians 5:15: "that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever"
1 Timothy 6:10: "is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred"
2 Timothy 4:14: "did me much evil: the Lord reward him"
Titus 1:12: "The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."
Hebrews 5:14: "discern both good and evil."
James 1:13: "for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he"
James 3:8: "man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison."
1 Peter 3:9: "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for"
1 Peter 3:9: "rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing:"
1 Peter 3:10: "his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak"
1 Peter 3:11: "Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and"
1 Peter 3:12: "of the Lord is against them that do evil."
3 John 1:11: "Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is"
Revelation 2:2: "thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are"









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