ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑ, κακουργια
KAKOURGIA, kakourgia
Sounds Like: ka-koor-GEE-ah
Translations: evil-doing, a evil-doing, malice, a malice, mischief, a mischief, wickedness, a wickedness, crime, a crime
From the root: ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to evil-doing, wickedness, or mischief. It can also denote a specific crime or act of malice. It is a compound word derived from 'κακός' (kakos), meaning 'bad' or 'evil', and 'ἔργον' (ergon), meaning 'work' or 'deed'. Thus, it literally means 'evil work' or 'bad deed'. It is used to describe actions that are morally wrong or harmful.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2550 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 5:59
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 22:107
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 14:22
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑ.
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.
- ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑΙΣ — (to) evil doings, (to) malicious acts, (to) mischiefs, (to) wickednesses
- ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑΝ — evil-doing, crime, mischief, malice, villainy, a crime, a mischief
- ΚΑΚΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ — of evil-doing, of villainy, of mischief, of malice, of crime, of wickedness
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