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Evil
King James Dictionary
or E'VIL, a. e'vl. Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.
1. Having bad qualities of a natural kind mischievous having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief.
Some evil beast hath devoured him. Genesis 37
2. Having bad qualities of a moral kind wicked corrupt perverse wrong as evil thoughts evil deeds evil speaking an evil generation.
3. Unfortunate unhappy producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity as evil tidings evil arrows evil days.
E'VIL, n. Evil is natural or moral. Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.
Moral evil is any deviation of a moral agent from the rules of conduct prescribed to him by God, or by legitimate human authority or it is any violation of the plain principles of justice and rectitude.
There are also evils called which affect injuriously the peace or prosperity of a city or state and political evils, which injure a nation, in its public capacity.
All wickedness, all crimes, all violations of law and right are moral evils. Diseases are natural evils, but they often proceed from moral evils.
2. Misfortune mischief injury.
There shall no evil befall thee. Psalms 91
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself. Proverbs 22
3. Depravity corruption of heart, or disposition to commit wickedness malignity.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil. Ecclesiastes 9
4. Malady as the king's evil or scrophula.
E'VIL, adv. generally contracted to
1. Not well not with justice or propriety unsuitable.
Evil it beseems thee.
2. Not virtuously not innocently.
3. Not happily unfortunately.
It went evil with his house.
4. Injuriously not kindly.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us.
In composition, evil, denoting something bad or wrong, is often contracted to
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Evil'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/evil.html.
