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Strong's #4467 - ῥᾳδιούργημα
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- a piece of knavery, rascality, villainy
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ῥᾳδιούργ-ημα, ατος, τό,
misdeed, villany. D.H. 1.77, Acts 18:14, Plu. Pyrrh. 6 .
ῤᾳδιούργημα, ῥαδιουργηματος, τό (from ῤᾳδιουργέω, and this from ῤᾳδιουργός, compounded of ῤᾴδιος and ἔργῳ. A ῤᾳδιουργός is one who does a thing with little effort and adroitly; then, in a bad sense, a man who is facile and forward in the perpetration of crime, a knave, a rogue), a piece of knavery, rascality, villany: πονηρόν, Acts 18:14. (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian; ecclesiastical writings.)
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* ῥᾳδιούργημα , -τος , τό
(< ῥᾳδιουργέω , to act recklessly or wrongly),
1. a reckless act.
2. crime, villany: Acts 18:14.†
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a Grecized transliteration of the Aramaic סָטָנָא, meaning originally ";one lying in ambush for,"; and hence as a proper name ";the adversary,"; ";the accuser"; : cf. for the development of the Jewish belief EB s.v., Bousset Die Religion des Judentums.2 (1906), p. 382 ff., also Hart James, p. 98 f.
In the magical incantation P Par 574.1238 (iii/A.D.) (= Selections, p. 113), Jesus the Christ is adjured to drive forth the devil from a man until this unclean demon of Satan—π ἀκάθαρτος ν δαίμων πι σαδανᾶς —shall flee before him. For the corresponding adj. cf. P Lond V. 1731.11 (A.D. 585) where a divorce is said to have taken place κατὰ διαβου (= ο)λικὴν καὶ σατανικὴν ἐνέργειαν.
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