1 | Strong's Number: g2549 | Greek: kakia |
Malice, Maliciousness, Malicious:
"badness in quality" (the opposite of arete, "excellence"), "the vicious character generally" (Lightfoot), is translated "malice" in 1Cr 5:8; 14:20; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8; Tts 3:3; 1Pe 2:1, AV (RV, "wickedness;" marg., "malice"); "maliciousness" in Rom 1:29; in 1Pe 2:16, AV (RV, "wickedness;" marg., "malice"). Elsewhere, Mat 6:34; Act 8:22; Jam 1:21 (RV marg., "malice").
See EVIL, B, No. 1.
Note: In 2Jo 1:10, AV, poneros, "evil, wicked" (see EVIL, A, No. 2) is translated "malicious" (RV, "wicked").
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