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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, (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.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - Then he said to them, “So may the LORD be with you, when I let you and your little ones go! Watch out, for evil is [fn]on your mind!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - “Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - “Then it will come about, when many evils and troubles find them, that this song will testify before them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouth of their [fn]descendants); for I know their inclination which they are [fn]developing today, before I bring them into the land which I swore.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘So I have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and disgrace, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates have been burned with fire.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 -

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates have been burned by fire. Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, “Come, let’s meet together [fn]at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were plotting to [fn]harm me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and I came to Jerusalem and [fn]learned about the evil that Eliashib had committed for [fn]Tobiah, by preparing a [fn]room for him in the courtyards of the house of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - “Has it not then been reported about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God, by [fn]marrying foreign women?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 -

Please let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous;

For the righteous God puts hearts and [fn]minds to the test.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4 -

Give back to them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;

Give back to them according to the work of their hands;

Repay them what is due them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 -

May [fn]death come deceitfully upon them;

May they go down alive to [fn]Sheol,

For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8 -

They mock and [fn]wickedly speak of oppression;

They speak from on high.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 -

He has brought back their injustice upon them,

And He will [fn]destroy them in their evil;

The LORD our God will [fn]destroy them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 -

Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,

To practice deeds [fn]of wickedness

With people who do wrong;

And may I not taste their delicacies.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 -

When [fn]he speaks graciously, do not believe him,

Because there are seven abominations in his heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - When there is a person who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then gives his [fn]legacy to one who has not labored for it; this too is futility and a great evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 -

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is widespread [fn]among mankind:

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 -

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a mistake that proceeds from the ruler:

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - So remove [fn]sorrow from your heart and keep [fn]pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are [fn]fleeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 -

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.

Stop doing evil,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 -

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes

And to those who constantly record [fn]harmful decisions,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 -

“You felt secure in your wickedness and said,

‘No one sees me,’

Your wisdom and your knowledge, [fn]they have led you astray;

For you have said in your heart,

‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 -

Their feet run to evil,

And they hurry to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of wrongdoing,

Devastation and destruction are in their paths.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 -

“Circumcise yourselves to the LORD

And remove the foreskins of your hearts,

Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Or else My wrath will spread like fire

And burn with no one to quench it,

Because of the evil of your deeds.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 -

The bellows blow fiercely,

The lead is consumed by the fire;

In vain the refining goes on,

But the wicked are not [fn]separated.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 -

Therefore this is what the LORD of armies says:

“Behold, I will refine them and put them to the test;

For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11 -

“For both prophet and priest are defiled;

Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs: the good figs are very good, and the bad ones, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 -

‘But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness,’ indeed, this is what the LORD says, ‘so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who live in the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill [fn]their houses with the bodies of people whom I have struck down in My anger and My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of their wickedness which they committed to provoke Me to anger by continuing to burn [fn]sacrifices and to serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - “So the LORD was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; so your land has become a place of ruins, an object of horror, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 -

“The disaster of Moab will soon come,

And his catastrophe has hurried quickly.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - “As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, because the end is still to come at the appointed time.
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