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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 He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - So Abram said to Sarai, “Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to her as you please.” And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down 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 their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people? Why is it You have sent 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; neither have You delivered Your people at all.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - “You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor 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 fatherless child.

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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 at all to Me, I will surely hear their 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 afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Then Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I hurt 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 afflicted us and our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:24 - But ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus,[fn]
And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict Eber,
And so shall Amalek,[fn] until he perishes.”

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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. You shall afflict your souls; 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 afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:2 - “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test 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 - “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds 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, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:6 - ‘But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Also I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to what I did among them. 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 you good.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of 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 them and harassed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - “I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted 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 own fields, for you are deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he cried out to the LORD and said, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.
An unfanned fire will consume him;
It shall go ill with him who is left 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 strength of the fatherless was crushed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - They are exalted for a little while,
Then they are gone.
They are brought low;
They are taken out of the way like all others;
They dry out like the heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - (Indeed I have not allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for a curse on his soul);

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When the wicked came against me
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:8 - I am feeble and severely broken;
I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 - You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:22 - The enemy shall not outwit him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:5 - They break in pieces 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 also at the waters of strife,[fn]
So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:39

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For many times, also, your own heart has known
That even you have 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 heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:23 - Show the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, do good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:9 - Surely the Lord GOD will help Me;
Who is he who will condemn Me?
Indeed they will all grow old 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;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep 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 them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:29 - “For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on 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, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, 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 will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And 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 to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:12 - “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were 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 knows!
The prophet is a fool,
The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:12 - “And it shall come to pass at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And punish the men
Who are settled in complacency,[fn]
Who say in their heart,
‘The LORD will not do good,
Nor will He do evil.’

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