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Lexicon :: Strong's G2549 - kakia

Aa
κακία
Transliteration
kakia (Key)
Pronunciation
kak-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:482,391

Trench's Synonyms: xi. κακία, κακοήθεια.

Strong’s Definitions

κακία kakía, kak-ee'-ah; from G2556; badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble:—evil, malice(-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G2549 in the following manner: malice (6x), maliciousness (2x), evil (1x), wickedness (1x), naughtiness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G2549 in the following manner: malice (6x), maliciousness (2x), evil (1x), wickedness (1x), naughtiness (1x).

  1. malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure

  2. wickedness, depravity

    1. wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws

  3. evil, trouble

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κακία kakía, kak-ee'-ah; from G2556; badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble:—evil, malice(-iousness), naughtiness, wickedness.
STRONGS G2549:
κακία, κακίας, ἡ (κακός) (from Theognis down), the Sept. chiefly for רַע, and רָעָה;
1. malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure: Romans 1:29; Ephesians 4:31; Colossians 3:8; Titus 3:3; James 1:21; 1 Peter 2:1.
2. wickedness, depravity: 1 Corinthians 5:8 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 120 (114)); 1 Corinthians 14:20; Acts 8:22 (cf. Acts 8:21); wickedness that is not ashamed to break the laws, 1 Peter 2:16.
3. Hellenistically, evil, trouble: Matthew 6:34 (as Amos 3:6; (1 Samuel 6:9); Ecclesiastes 7:15 (Ecclesiastes 7:14); Ecclesiastes 12:1; Sir. 19:6; 1 Macc. 7:23, etc.).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Samuel
6:9
Ecclesiastes
7:14; 7:15; 12:1
Amos
3:6
Matthew
6:34
Acts
8:21; 8:22
Romans
1:29
1 Corinthians
5:8; 14:20
Ephesians
4:31
Colossians
3:8
Titus
3:3
James
1:21
1 Peter
2:1; 2:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2549 matches the Greek κακία (kakia),
which occurs 11 times in 11 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:34 - Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:22 - Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:29 - Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:8 - Let us then keep the feast, not with old leaven, and not with the leaven of evil thoughts and acts, but with the unleavened bread of true thoughts and right feelings.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:20 - My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:31 - Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:8 - But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3 - For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:21 - For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:1 - So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:16 - As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
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