κακία kakia

Greek word for “evil” · Strong’s G2549 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

κακία, -ας, ἡ; (κακός);

How it is translated

Glosses given for kakia in context, with how often each is used:

• malice 6
• wickedness 2
• evil 2
• trouble 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Peter 2 (2), Matthew 6 (1), Acts 8 (1), Romans 1 (1), 1 Corinthians 5 (1), 1 Corinthians 14 (1), Ephesians 4 (1), Colossians 3 (1), Titus 3 (1), James 1 (1)

Forms

• κακίας 4
• κακίᾳ 4
• κακίαν 2
• κακία 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kakia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• φθόνος phthonos “envy” 3
• ἀποτίθημι apotithēmi “to put aside” 3
• πονηρία ponēria “evil” 2
• δόλος dolos “deceit” 2
• βλασφημία blasphēmia “blasphemy” 2
• θυμός thumos “wrath” 2
• ὀργή orgē “wrath” 2

Key verses

The verses using kakia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 6:34 — Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
• Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• Romans 1:29 — Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• 1 Corinthians 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 Corinthians 14:20 — Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• Ephesians 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Colossians 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one…
• James 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• 1 Peter 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.