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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g4190 Greek: poneros

Wicked:

for which see BAD, No. 2, EVIL, A and B, No. 2, is translated "wicked" in the AV and RV in Mat 13:49; 18:32; 25:26; Luk 19:22; Act 18:14; 1Cr 5:13; in the following the RV substitutes "evil" for AV, "wicked:" Mat 12:45 (twice); Mat 13:19; 16:4; Luk 11:26; Col 1:21; 2Th 3:2; and in the following, where Satan is mentioned as "the (or that) evil one:" Mat 13:38; Eph 6:16; 1Jo 2:13, 14; 3:12 (1st part); 1Jo 5:18; in Jhn 5:19 for AV, "wickedness;" he is so called also in AV and RV in Jhn 17:15; 2Th 3:3; AV only in Luk 11:4; in 3Jo 1:10, AV, the word is translated "malicious," RV, "wicked."

2 Strong's Number: g113 Greek: athesmos

Wicked:

"lawless" (a, negative, thesmos, "law, custom"), "wicked," occurs in 2Pe 2:7; 3:17. An instance of the use of the word is found in the papyri, where a father breaks off his daughter's engagement because he learnt that her fiance was giving himself over to lawless deeds (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.).

Notes:

(1) In Mat 21:41, AV, kakos (for which see BAD, No. 1, EVIL, A, No. 1), is translated "wicked" (RV, "miserable").

(2) In Act 2:23; 2Th 2:8, AV, anomos, "lawless" (RV), is translated "wicked."

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