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Lexicon :: Strong's G2559 - kakoō

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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 Box Gen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses turned again to the LORD and said, "O LORD, why hast thou done evil to this people? Why didst thou ever send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has done evil to this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people at all."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - Moses said to the LORD, "Why hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou dost lay the burden of all this people upon me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 - But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also shall come to destruction."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - "On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and afflict yourselves; you shall do no work,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - And the Egyptians treated us harshly, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterwards I brought you out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Na'omi, when the LORD has afflicted me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And to Abi'athar the priest the king said, "Go to An'athoth, to your estate; for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all the affliction of my father."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - And he cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, hast thou brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not blown upon will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 - Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 - thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5 - They crush thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 - They angered him at the waters of Mer'ibah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:39 - When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:27

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness; and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are thickening upon their lees, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.'

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