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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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, [fn]and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your [fn]hand; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Step aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and stepped up to break the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with [fn]hard labors. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 -

Then Moses returned to Yahweh and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - “Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 -

“You shall not mistreat a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:22 - “You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - “And if you indeed afflict him, and if he earnestly cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - So Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have You [fn]allowed this evil toward Your slave? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 -

Then Moses became very angry and said to Yahweh, “Do not regard their offering! I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 -

“But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,

And they shall afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber;

So they also will come to destruction.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 -

‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 -

“Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may cause it to stand, or her husband may annul it.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - “And He humbled you and let you be hungry 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 by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - “In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you [fn]in the end,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - ‘And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us and imposed hard slave labor on us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I smote Egypt [fn]by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - “If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Now when Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for Yahweh was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and suppressed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, but Yahweh has caused me to return empty. Why do you call me Naomi? Yahweh has answered against me, and [fn]the Almighty has brought calamity against me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 -

Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you [fn]deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of Lord Yahweh before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he called to Yahweh and said, “O Yahweh my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am sojourning, by causing her son to die?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 -

Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures;

A fire unfanned will devour him;

It will consume the survivor in his tent.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 -

“You have sent widows away empty,

And the [fn]might of the orphans has been crushed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 -

“They are exalted a little while, then they are gone;

Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up;

Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 -

“Because [fn]He has loosed [fn]His [fn]bowstring and afflicted me,

They have thrust aside their bridle before me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -

“But I have not given over my [fn]mouth to sin

By asking for his life in a curse

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 -

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,

My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 -

I am faint and [fn]badly crushed;

I [fn]groan because of the [fn]agitation of my heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 -

You with Your own hand dispossessed the nations;

Then You planted them;

You afflicted the peoples,

Then You cast them out.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 -

“The enemy will not [fn]deceive him,

Nor the [fn]son of unrighteousness afflict him.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5 -

They crush Your people, O Yahweh,

And afflict Your inheritance.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 -

They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of [fn]Meribah,

So that it went badly with Moses on their account;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:39 -

But when they decrease and are bowed down

Through oppression, evil, and sorrow,

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For your heart also knows that you likewise have many times cursed others.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I have seen and given my heart to every work that has been done under the sun wherein a man has power over another man to his calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 -

Declare the things that are to come afterward,

That we may know that you are gods;

Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 -

Behold, Lord Yahweh helps Me;

Who is he who condemns Me?

Behold, they will all wear out like a garment;

The moth will eat them.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 -

He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and do not walk after other gods to [fn]serve them and to [fn]worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will bring no evil against you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to bring evil against this city which is called by My name. But shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment, for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares Yahweh of hosts.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - “And it will be that as I have watched over them to uproot, to tear down, to pull down, to destroy, and to bring calamity, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - ‘Behold, I am watching over them for [fn]evil and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will [fn]meet their end by the sword and by famine until they [fn]are completely consumed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Now as for you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live [fn]by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you gave your heart to understand this and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 -

The days of punishment have come;

The days of recompense have come;

[fn]Let Israel know this!

The prophet is an ignorant fool,

The [fn]inspired man has madness,

Because of the abundance of your iniquity

And because your hostility has abounded.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 -

“And it will be at that time

That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,

And I will punish the men

Who are [fn]stagnant in spirit,

Who say in their hearts,

‘Yahweh will not do good or evil!’


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