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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 Box Exo 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - But he said to them, “The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 - Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,[fn]
O righteous God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4 - Give to them according to their work
and according to the evil of their deeds;
give to them according to the work of their hands;
render them their due reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - Let death steal over them;
let them go down to Sheol alive;
for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8 - They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 - He will bring back on them their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the LORD our God will wipe them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 - when he speaks graciously, believe him not,
for there are seven abominations in his heart;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 - There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain[fn] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees,
and the writers who keep writing oppression,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You felt secure in your wickedness;
you said, “No one sees me”;
your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem;
lest my wrath go forth like fire,
and burn with none to quench it,
because of the evil of your deeds.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows blow fiercely;
the lead is consumed by the fire;
in vain the refining goes on,
for the wicked are not removed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Behold, I will refine them and test them,
for what else can I do, because of my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11 - “Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even in my house I have found their evil,
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - “But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - They are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them[fn] with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
and his affliction hastens swiftly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.
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