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Greek word study

πονηρόςponērós — evil, bad, wicked

evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful.

Translated in the King James as: bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness)

Appears 78 times in Scripture

Origin: from a derivative of G4192 (πόνος);

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Where it appears

Matthew — 26×

Matt 5:11 Matt 5:37 Matt 5:39 Matt 5:45 Matt 6:13 Matt 6:23 Matt 7:11 Matt 7:17 Matt 7:18 Matt 9:4 Matt 12:34 Matt 12:35 Matt 12:39 Matt 12:45 Matt 13:19 Matt 13:38 Matt 13:49 Matt 15:19 Matt 16:4 Matt 18:32 Matt 20:15 Matt 22:10 Matt 25:26+ 3 more in Matthew

Mark — 2×

Mark 7:22 Mark 7:23

Luke — 13×

Luke 3:19 Luke 6:22 Luke 6:35 Luke 6:45 Luke 7:21 Luke 8:2 Luke 11:13 Luke 11:26 Luke 11:29 Luke 11:34 Luke 19:22+ 2 more in Luke

John — 3×

John 3:19 John 7:7 John 17:15

Acts — 8×

Acts 17:5 Acts 18:14 Acts 19:12 Acts 19:13 Acts 19:15 Acts 19:16 Acts 25:18 Acts 28:21

Romans — 1×

1 Corinthians — 1×

Galatians — 1×

Ephesians — 3×

Eph 5:16 Eph 6:13 Eph 6:16

Colossians — 1×

1 Thessalonians — 1×

2 Thessalonians — 2×

2 Thess 3:2 2 Thess 3:3

1 Timothy — 1×

2 Timothy — 2×

2 Tim 3:13 2 Tim 4:18

Hebrews — 2×

Heb 3:12 Heb 10:22

James — 2×

James 2:4 James 4:16

1 John — 6×

1 John 2:13 1 John 2:14 1 John 3:12 1 John 5:18 1 John 5:19+ 1 more in 1 John

2 John — 1×

3 John — 1×

Revelation — 1×

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Lexicon data: Open Scriptures Strong’s dictionaries (CC-BY-SA), Dodson Greek Lexicon (public domain). Word alignment: Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain). Self-hosted by Seen.