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Lexicon :: Strong's G4189 - ponēria

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πονηρία
Transliteration
ponēria (Key)
Pronunciation
pon-ay-ree'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:562,912

Strong’s Definitions

πονηρία ponēría, pon-ay-ree'-ah; from G4190; depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins:—iniquity, wickedness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G4189 in the following manner: wickedness (6x), iniquity (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G4189 in the following manner: wickedness (6x), iniquity (1x).

  1. depravity, iniquity, wickedness

  2. malice

  3. evil purposes and desires

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πονηρία ponēría, pon-ay-ree'-ah; from G4190; depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins:—iniquity, wickedness.
STRONGS G4189:
πονηρία, πονηρίας, ἡ (πονηρός) (from Sophocles down), the Sept. for רֹעַ and רָעָה, depravity, iniquity, wickedness ((so A. V. almost uniformly)), malice: Matthew 22:18; Luke 11:39; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:8; Ephesians 6:12; plural αἱ πονηρίαι (cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, § 123, 2; R. V. wickednesses), evil purposes and desires, Mark 7:22; wicked ways (A. V. iniquities), Acts 3:26. (Synonym: see κακία, at the end.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
22:18
Mark
7:22
Luke
11:39
Acts
3:26
Romans
1:29
1 Corinthians
5:8
Ephesians
6:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4189 matches the Greek πονηρία (ponēria),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - And he said to them, So let the Lord be with you: as I will send you away, must I send away your store also? see that [fn]evil is attached to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Take heed lest at any time the Egyptians speak, saying, With evil intent he brought them out to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from off the earth; cease from thy wrathful anger, and be merciful to the sin of thy people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - And now [fn]I have not sinned against thee, but thou wrongest me in preparing war against me: may the Lord the Judge judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - And they said to me, The remnant, even those that are left of the captivity, are there in the land, in great distress and reproach: and the walls of Jerusalem are thrown down, and its gates are burnt with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - And the king said to me, Why is thy countenance sad, and dost thou not control thyself? and now this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much alarmed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, Ye see this evil, in which we are, how Jerusalem is desolate, and her gates have been set on fire: come, and let us build throughout the wall of Jerusalem, and we shall be no longer a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - that Sanaballat and Gesam sent to me, saying, Come and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono. But they were plotting to do me mischief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and I came to Jerusalem, and I understood the mischief which Eliasib had done in the case of Tobias, in making for him a treasury in the court of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, —to marry strange wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 - (LXX 7:10) Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and then thou shalt direct the righteous, O God that searchest the hearts and reins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4 - (LXX 27:4) Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompence unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - (LXX 54:16) Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8 - (LXX 72:8) They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 - (LXX 93:23) And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - (LXX 140:4) Incline not my heart to evil things, to [fn]employ pretexts [fn]for sins, with men who work iniquity: and [fn]let me not unite with their choice ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 - Though thine enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For there is such a man that his labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; yet this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and great evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is abundant with man:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, wherein an error has proceeded from the ruler.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - for thy [fn]trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - And [fn] their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts [fn]of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness is not consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - (LXX 9:6) Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11 - For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - The one basket was full of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was full of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - (LXX 39:32) because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - (LXX 40:5) to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - (LXX 51:3) because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - (LXX 51:22) And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - (LXX 31:16) The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - And as for both the kings, their hearts are set upon mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a fixed time.
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