ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ, πονηρος
PONĒROS, ponēros
Sounds Like: po-NEE-ros
Translations: evil, wicked, bad, malicious, harmful, worthless, a wicked person, the evil one
From the root: ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as evil, wicked, or bad. It can refer to moral depravity, harmfulness, or worthlessness. It is often used to describe people who are morally corrupt or actions that are harmful. When used substantively, it can refer to 'the evil one,' often understood as the devil.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G4190 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:27
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 23:17
- Esther — 7:6
- Psalms — 33:22
- Proverbs — 11:15
- Ecclesiastes — 4:8
- Job — 12:6, 21:30
- Sirach — 14:5, 14:8, 14:10, 17:31, 20:24, 28:21, 31:13
- Jeremiah — 23:10
- Matthew — 6:23, 12:35, 13:19, 20:15
- Mark — 7:22
- Luke — 6:45, 11:34
- 1 John — 5:18
- Epistle of Barnabas — 2:10, 4:12, 4:13, 9:4
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 6:149
- Book 4 — 8:286
- Book 6 — 13:284, 13:296, 13:312
- Book 7 — 11:278
- Book 8 — 10:236, 10:243, 12:299, 12:301
- Book 9 — 2:18, 6:121, 13:258
- Book 10 — 9:160
- Book 11 — 2:26
- Book 13 — 5:143, 9:267
- Book 17 — 5:117, 5:143
- Book 18 — 3:81
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 125:4
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Martyrdom of Polycarp — 17:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 38:7
- 1 Samuel — 25:3, 30:22
- 1 Chronicles — 2:3
- Nehemiah — 13:17
- Esther — 7:6
- Psalms — 33:22
- Proverbs — 11:15
- Ecclesiastes — 4:8
- Job — 12:6, 21:30
- Sirach — 14:5, 14:8, 14:10, 17:31, 20:24, 28:21, 34:13
- Jeremiah — 23:10
- Micah — 2:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΝΗΡΟΥ — of evil, of wicked, of bad, of harmful, of vicious, of diseased, of depraved
- ΟΙΠΟΝΗΡΟΙ — the wicked, the evil, the bad
- ΟΝΗΡΑ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, malicious, mischievous, a wicked thing, evil things
- ΠΟΝΗ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, a wicked thing, a harmful thing
- ΠΟΝΗΡ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, worthless, diseased, malicious, base, depraved
- ΠΟΝΗΡΑ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, malicious, an evil thing
- ΠΟΝΗΡΑΙ — evil, bad, wicked, worthless, harmful, diseased
- ΠΟΝΗΡΑΙΣ — (to) evil, (to) wicked, (to) bad, (to) harmful, (to) mischievous
- ΠΟΝΗΡΑΝ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, mischievous, an evil, a wicked, a bad, a harmful, a mischievous
- ΠΟΝΗΡΑΣ — of evil, of wicked, of bad, of a wicked thing, of a wicked person
- ΠΟΝΗΡΕ — O evil one, O wicked one, O bad one
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, mischievous, worthless, diseased, an evil thing, the evil one
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΙ — evil, wicked, bad, mischievous, worthless
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΙΣ — evil, wicked, bad, malicious, harmful, diseased, miserable
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΙΤΩΝ — of evil, of wicked, of bad, of harmful, of diseased, of sick, of worthless, of useless, of base, of vicious, of depraved
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΝ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, a wicked thing, an evil thing
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΑ — most evil, most wicked, very evil, very wicked, most evil things, most wicked things
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΟΙΣ — most evil, most wicked, most malicious, to the most evil, to the most wicked, to the most malicious
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΟΣ — most evil, most wicked, very evil, very wicked, a most evil, a most wicked
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΟΥ — of the most evil, of the most wicked, of the most bad, of the most harmful
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΟΥΣ — most evil, most wicked, most bad, most harmful
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΑΤΩ — most evil, most wicked, most bad, most harmful, most vicious, most depraved, most malicious
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΑ — more evil, worse, more wicked, more harmful
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΑΝ — more evil, more wicked, more harmful, more bad
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΟ — more evil, more wicked, worse, more harmful, more troublesome
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more evil, more wicked, more harmful, worse
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΟΣ — more evil, more wicked, more harmful, more malicious, more diseased, more miserable
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΤΕΡΩΝ — (of) more evil, (of) more wicked, (of) worse, (of) more harmful
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΥ — of evil, of wicked, of bad, of harmful
- ΠΟΝΗΡΟΥΣ — evil, wicked, bad, mischievous, malicious
- ΠΟΝΗΡΩ — evil, wicked, bad, harmful, diseased, vicious, worthless
- ΠΟΝΗΡΩΝ — (of) evil, (of) wicked, (of) bad, (of) harmful, (of) malicious
- ΠΟΝΗΡΩΣ — evilly, wickedly, badly
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