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Lexicon :: Strong's G4189 - ponēria

Aa
πονηρία
Transliteration
ponēria (Key)
Pronunciation
pon-ay-ree'-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: 6:562,912

Strong’s Definitions

πονηρία ponēría, pon-ay-ree'-ah; from G4190; depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins:—iniquity, wickedness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G4189 in the following manner: wickedness (6x), iniquity (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G4189 in the following manner: wickedness (6x), iniquity (1x).

  1. depravity, iniquity, wickedness

  2. malice

  3. evil purposes and desires

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πονηρία ponēría, pon-ay-ree'-ah; from G4190; depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins:—iniquity, wickedness.
STRONGS G4189:
πονηρία, πονηρίας, ἡ (πονηρός) (from Sophocles down), the Sept. for רֹעַ and רָעָה, depravity, iniquity, wickedness ((so A. V. almost uniformly)), malice: Matthew 22:18; Luke 11:39; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Ephesians 6:12; plural αἱ πονηρίαι (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, § 123, 2; R. V. wickednesses), evil purposes and desires, Mark 7:22; wicked ways (A. V. iniquities), Acts 3:26. (Synonym: see κακία, at the end.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
22:18
Mark
7:22
Luke
11:39
Acts
3:26
Romans
1:29
1 Corinthians
5:8
Ephesians
6:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4189 matches the Greek πονηρία (ponēria),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - And he said unto them, So be Jehovah with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 -
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous:
For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4 -
Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings:
Give them after the operation of their hands;
Render to them their desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 -
Let death come suddenly upon them,
Let them go down alive into Sheol;
For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8 -
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression:
They speak loftily.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 -
And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 -
Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
To practise deeds of wickedness
With men that work iniquity:
And let me not eat of their dainties.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 -
When he speaketh fair, believe him not;
For there are seven abominations in his heart:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11 - for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - so that Jehovah could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - And as for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
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