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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 - Pharaoh said, “The LORD be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:12 - Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:21 - And when many disasters and calamities come on them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the LORD, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:3 - They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:2 - so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:17 - Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages[fn] on the plain of Ono.” But they were scheming to harm me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 - Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:4 - Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work; repay them for what their hands have done and bring back on them what they deserve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:15 - Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:23 - He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:25 - Though their speech is charming, do not believe them, for seven abominations fill their hearts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:21 - For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 - I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:5 - There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:10 - So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 - Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:1 - Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:10 - You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire because of the evil you have done— burn with no one to quench it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:29 - The bellows blow fiercely to burn away the lead with fire, but the refining goes on in vain; the wicked are not purged out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: “See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:11 - “Both prophet and priest are godless; even in my temple I find their wickedness,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - Then the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:8 - “ ‘But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done—they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - in the fight with the Babylonians[fn]: ‘They will be filled with the dead bodies of the people I will slay in my anger and wrath. I will hide my face from this city because of all its wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:3 - because of the evil they have done. They aroused my anger by burning incense to and worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors ever knew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:22 - When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:16 - “The fall of Moab is at hand; her calamity will come quickly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:27 - The two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but to no avail, because an end will still come at the appointed time.
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