ΚΑΚΟΗΘΕΣ, κακοηθες
KAKOĒTHES, kakoēthes
Sounds Like: kah-koh-AY-thess
Translations: malicious, malignant, ill-natured, evil-minded, mischievous, a malicious thing
From the root: ΚΑΚΟΗΘΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is ill-natured, malicious, or malignant. It is a compound word formed from 'κακός' (bad, evil) and 'ἦθος' (character, disposition), literally meaning 'having a bad disposition'. It can be used to describe a person's character or an action that stems from such a character.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Neuter
Strong’s number: G2559 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 2:14
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 24:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΚΟΗΘΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΚΟΗΘΕΙΣ — malicious, evil-minded, ill-natured, mischievous, spiteful, malicious ones
- ΚΑΚΟΗΘΗ — malicious, evil-minded, malignant, mischievous, ill-natured, malicious things, evil-minded things
- ΚΑΚΟΗΘΗΣ — malicious, ill-natured, malignant, evil-minded, a malicious person
- ΚΑΚΟΗΘΩΣ — maliciously, spitefully, wickedly, mischievously, with ill-will
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