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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become 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 down.

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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. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you 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 your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do mistreat 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 have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on 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 donkey 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 lived 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 too shall come to utter 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.[fn] 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,[fn] her husband may establish,[fn] 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 the whole way that 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 man lives by every word[fn] that comes from 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 that 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 humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.

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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 afterward 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 Naomi, when the LORD has testified against 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 Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father’s affliction.”

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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, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing 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 fanned 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 are brought low and gathered up like all others;
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[fn] 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
to eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
it is they who stumble and fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am feeble 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 - you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them you 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 your people, O LORD,
and afflict your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 - They angered him at the waters of Meribah,
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, evil, and sorrow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power 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.[fn]

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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 silent,
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 disaster at the city that 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, declares 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 harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - Behold, I am watching over them for disaster 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[fn] 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 heart 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 complacent,[fn]
those who say in their hearts,
‘The LORD will not do good,
nor will he do ill.’

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