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Lexicon :: Strong's G2559 - kakoō

Aa
κακόω
Transliteration
kakoō (Key)
Pronunciation
kak-o'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:484,391

Strong’s Definitions

κακόω kakóō, kak-o'-o; from G2556; to injure; figuratively, to exasperate:—make evil affected, entreat evil, harm, hurt, vex.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G2559 in the following manner: entreat evil (2x), make evil affected (1x), vex (1x), hurt (1x), harm (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G2559 in the following manner: entreat evil (2x), make evil affected (1x), vex (1x), hurt (1x), harm (1x).

  1. to oppress, afflict, harm, maltreat

  2. to embitter, render evil affected

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κακόω kakóō, kak-o'-o; from G2556; to injure; figuratively, to exasperate:—make evil affected, entreat evil, harm, hurt, vex.
STRONGS G2559:
κακόω, κακῷ: future κακώσω; 1 aorist ἐκάκωσα; (κακός);
1. to oppress, afflict, harm, maltreat: τινα, Acts 7:6, 19; Acts 12:1; Acts 18:10; 1 Peter 3:13 (Exodus 5:22; Exodus 23:9 Alex.; in Greek writings from Homer down).
2. by a usage foreign to the classics, to embitter (Vulg.ad iracundiam concito); render evil affected (Psalm 105:32 (Ps. 106:32); Josephus, Antiquities 16, 1, 2; 7, 3; 8, 6): τήν ψυχήν τίνος κατά τίνος, against one, Acts 14:2.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
5:22; 23:9
Psalms
105:32; 106:32
Acts
7:6; 7:19; 12:1; 14:2; 18:10
1 Peter
3:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2559 matches the Greek κακόω (kakoō),
which occurs 53 times in 51 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 15:13–Zep 1:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - And a sojourner shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - And Moses was very wroth, and said unto Jehovah, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 -
But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,
And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber;
And he also shall come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - And on the tenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall do no manner of work;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in the midst thereof: and afterward I brought you out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 -
All darkness is laid up for his treasures:
A fire not blown by man shall devour him;
It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 -
Thou hast sent widows away empty,
And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 -
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone;
Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 -
For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me;
And they have cast off the bridle before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -
(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin
By asking his life with a curse);

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 -
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 -
I am faint and sore bruised:
I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 -
Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;
But them thou didst plant:
Thou didst afflict the peoples;
But them thou didst spread abroad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 -
The enemy shall not exact from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5 -
They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,
And afflict thy heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 -
They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:39 -
Again, they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard: and I am come for thy words’ sake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.

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