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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 - God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your [fn]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, [fn]where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Stand aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came in [fn]as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and came near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with [fn]hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have You brought harm to this people? Why did You ever send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:23

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.”

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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 afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have You [fn]been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering! I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:24

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:7

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - “Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm it or her husband may annul it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “You shall remember all the way which the LORD 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - “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 [fn]understand that man does not live by bread alone, but 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 - “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.

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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 imposed hard labor on us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt [fn]by what I did in its midst; 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 He has done good to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - When the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered 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 oppressed and afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has witnessed against me and [fn]the Almighty has afflicted me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:26

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 the Lord [fn]GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - He called to the LORD and said, “O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am [fn]staying, by causing her son to die?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,
And unfanned fire will devour him;
It will consume the survivor in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - “You have sent widows away empty,
And the [fn]strength of the orphans has been crushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 - “Because [fn]He has loosed [fn]His [fn]bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - “[fn]No, I have not [fn]allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for his life in a curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am benumbed and [fn]badly crushed;
I [fn]groan because of the [fn]agitation 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;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - “The enemy will not [fn]deceive him,
Nor the [fn]son of wickedness afflict 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 also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of [fn]Meribah,
So that it went hard 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 bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For [fn]you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I have seen and applied my [fn]mind to every deed that has been done under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over another man to his hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Declare the things that are going 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Behold, the Lord GOD helps Me;
Who is he who condemns Me?
Behold, they will all wear out like a garment;
The moth will eat them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - and do not go 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 do you no harm.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; 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 - “As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, 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 harm 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 gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “And you, son of man, say to [fn]your fellow citizens, ‘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.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to 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 retribution have come;
[fn]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The [fn]inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - “It will come about 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,
‘The LORD will not do good or evil!’

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