Strong's #4190: poneros (pronounced pon-ay-ros')
from a derivative of 4192; hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from 2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from 4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners:--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness). See also 4191.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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ponēros
1) full of labours, annoyances, hardships
1a) pressed and harassed by labours
1b) bringing toils, annoyances, perils; of a time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness; causing pain and trouble
2) bad, of a bad nature or condition
2a) in a physical sense: diseased or blind
2b) in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from a derivative of G4192
Citing in TDNT: 6:546, 912
Usage:
This word is used 76 times:
Romans 12:9: "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."
1 Corinthians 5:13: "put away from among yourselves that wicked person."
Galatians 1:4: "us from this present evil world, according to the will"
Ephesians 5:16: "the days are evil."
Ephesians 6:13: "ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done"
Ephesians 6:16: "the fiery darts of the wicked."
Colossians 1:21: "enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled"
1 Thessalonians 5:22: "from all appearance of evil."
2 Thessalonians 3:2: "from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not"
2 Thessalonians 3:3: "and keep you from evil."
1 Timothy 6:4: "cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings."
2 Timothy 3:13: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,"
2 Timothy 4:18: "me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto"
Hebrews 3:12: "in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from"
Hebrews 10:22: "having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed"
James 2:4: "in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?"
James 4:16: "such rejoicing is evil."
1 John 2:13: "because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because"
1 John 2:14: "and ye have overcome the wicked one."
1 John 3:12: "Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother."
1 John 3:12: "Because his own works were evil, and his brother's"
1 John 5:18: "keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not."
1 John 5:19: "world lieth in wickedness."
2 John 1:11: "Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds."
3 John 1:10: "which he doth, prating against us with malicious words: and not"
Revelation 16:2: "there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men"
