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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 for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - Abram said to Sarai, "Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best." Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - "Out of our way!" they cried, and "This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We'll do more harm to you than to them!" They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:23 - From the time I went to speak to Pharaoh in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have certainly not rescued them!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - "You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - And Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Moses was very angry, and he said to the LORD, "Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 - Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he will also perish forever."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - "'On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; you must not do any work on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:13 - "Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, her husband can confirm or nullify.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD's mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - I left here full, but the LORD has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me 'Naomi,' seeing that the LORD has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - The king then told Abiathar the priest, "Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign LORD before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he called out to the LORD, "O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 - Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse -

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 - You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5 - O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:32 - They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:39

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:39 - As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For you know in your own heart that you also have cursed others many times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Look, the sovereign LORD helps me. Who dares to condemn me? Look, all of them will wear out like clothes; a moth will eat away at them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:6 - Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own. So how can you possibly avoid being punished? You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the LORD who rules over all, affirm it!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:28 - In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the LORD, affirm it!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:27 - I will indeed see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them. All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.

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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 will not deliver him if he rebels. As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, "Don't be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! The prophet is considered a fool - the inspired man is viewed as a madman - because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, those who think to themselves, 'The LORD neither rewards nor punishes.'

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