2001 Translation

KAKŌS, kakōs

Sounds Like: ka-KOS

Translations: badly, wrongly, wickedly, ill, severely

From the root: ΚΑΚΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adverb

Explanation: This word is an adverb derived from the adjective 'κακός' (kakos), meaning 'bad'. It describes an action or state that is done in a bad, evil, wrong, or harmful manner. It can also indicate suffering or being in a poor condition. For example, it might be used to say someone acted 'badly' or was 'ill'.

Inflection: Does not inflect (adverbial form of ΚΑΚΟΣ)

Strong’s number: G2560 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:37

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:95

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 7:42
• 4 Maccabees — 6:17, 12:14
• Wisdom — 14:29, 14:30, 18:19
• Isaiah — 8:21
• Jeremiah — 7:9
• Matthew — 4:24, 8:16, 9:12, 14:35, 15:22, 17:15, 21:41
• Mark — 1:32, 1:34, 2:17, 6:55
• Luke — 5:31, 7:2
• John — 18:23
• Acts of the Apostles — 23:5
• James — 4:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:191, 25:225, 28:257, 29:273, 35:318, 5:50
• Book Two — 5:50

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 14:300
• Book 3 — 13:298
• Book 4 — 4:62, 8:299, 8:304
• Book 5 — 1:11, 1:13, 2:128, 2:150, 3:176
• Book 6 — 6:102, 7:135, 13:299
• Book 7 — 11:291
• Book 8 — 7:203, 7:204, 12:314
• Book 9 — 4:75
• Book 10 — 7:112
• Book 11 — 5:161
• Book 12 — 5:256, 8:327
• Book 13 — 5:135, 5:138, 6:215, 8:231, 10:274, 10:288, 13:353, 15:404
• Book 14 — 6:96, 15:397
• Book 15 — 3:65, 5:110, 5:118, 7:220, 7:226, 10:345, 10:353
• Book 16 — 2:47, 3:72, 4:114, 6:161, 7:219, 8:246, 8:270, 9:275, 10:323, 10:355, 11:382
• Book 17 — 4:76
• Book 19 — 1:16
• Book 20 — 7:143

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 9:15, 16:7
• Book Two — 16:57
• Book Three — 8:33
• Book Four — 4:62
• Book Five — 6:21, 7:10
• Book Six — 1:82
• Book Seven — 8:15, 8:51

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:2, 74:2, 119:5

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 38:192, 48:249

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 22:28
• Leviticus — 19:14, 20:9
• 1 Maccabees — 7:42
• 3 Maccabees — 1:14, 1:16
• 4 Maccabees — 6:17, 12:15
• Wisdom — 14:29, 14:30, 18:19
• Isaiah — 8:21
• Jeremiah — 7:10
• Ezekiel — 34:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 9 — 26:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:24, 8:16, 9:12, 14:35, 15:22, 17:15, 21:41
• Mark — 1:32, 1:34, 2:17, 6:55
• Luke — 5:31, 7:2
• John — 18:23
• Acts — 23:5
• James — 4:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΚΟΣ.

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.

• ΙΚΑΚ — unknown
• ΚΑΚ — bad, evil, wicked, harmful, a bad thing, evil thing, a wicked thing, a harmful thing
• ΚΑΚΑ — evil things, bad things, evils, misfortunes, troubles, a bad thing, an evil thing
• ΚΑΚΑΙ — evil, bad, wicked, harmful, a bad thing, a wicked thing
• ΚΑΚΑΣ — evil, bad, wicked, base, worthless, harmful, of evil, of bad, of wicked, of base, of worthless, of harmful
• ΚΑΚΗ — bad, evil, wicked, harmful, a bad (thing), a wicked (thing)
• ΚΑΚΗΝ — bad, evil, harmful, wicked, a bad, an evil
• ΚΑΚΗΣ — of evil, of bad, of wicked, of harmful, of worthless
• ΚΑΚΙΑ — evil, an evil, malice, a malice, wickedness, a wickedness, depravity, a depravity, trouble, a trouble
• ΚΑΚΙΝΑ — malice, wickedness, evil, a maliciousness, an evil
• ΚΑΚΙΝΟΙΣ — to/for evil ones, to/for wicked ones, to/for harmful things
• ΚΑΚΙΝΟΝ — evil, bad, worthless, a bad thing, a worthless thing
• ΚΑΚΙΟΝ — worse, more evil, more wicked, a worse thing, a more evil thing, a more wicked thing
• ΚΑΚΙΟΥΣ — worse, more evil, more wicked
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΑ — worst, most wickedly, most evilly, most badly
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΕ — most evil, worst, vilest, most wicked
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΟΙ — worst, most evil, most wicked, most base, most vile
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΟΝ — worst, most evil, most wicked, a worst thing, the worst thing
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΟΣ — worst, most evil, most wicked, most base
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΟΥ — of the worst, of the most evil, of the most wicked, of the most base
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΟΥΣ — worst, most evil, most wicked, most base
• ΚΑΚΙΣΤΩΝ — of the worst, of the most evil, of the most wicked
• ΚΑΚΙΩΝ — worse, more evil, inferior, more wicked
• ΚΑΚΟΙ — evil, bad, wicked, harmful, base, worthless
• ΚΑΚΟΙΣ — (to) evils, (to) bad things, (to) bad people, (for) evils, (for) bad things, (for) bad people
• ΚΑΚΟΝ — evil, bad, harmful, wicked, a bad thing, an evil thing, a wrong, a misfortune, a disaster
• ΚΑΚΟΣ — bad, evil, wicked, harmful, ill, base, worthless
• ΚΑΚΟΥ — (of) evil, (of) harm, (of) bad, (of) wickedness, (of) trouble, (of) misfortune
• ΚΑΚΟΥΣ — bad, evil, wicked
• ΚΑΚΩ — to evil, for evil, by evil, with evil, to a bad thing, for a bad thing, by a bad thing, with a bad thing, to harm, to afflict, to treat badly, to do evil
• ΚΑΚΩΝ — (of) bad things, (of) evils, (of) calamities, (of) troubles
• ΧΕΙΡΙΣΤΑ — worst, the worst, very bad, most evil, most wicked
• ΧΕΙΡΙΣΤΟΥΣ — worst, most evil, most wicked
• ΧΕΙΡΙΣΤΩ — worst, most badly, most wickedly
• ΧΕΙΡΟΝΕΣ — worse, more evil, inferior

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