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Wicked

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

for which see BAD , No. 2, EVIL, A and B, No. 2, is translated "wicked" in the AV and RV in Matthew 13:49; 18:32; 25:26; Luke 19:22; Acts 18:14; 1 Corinthians 5:13; in the following the RV substitutes "evil" for AV, "wicked:" Matthew 12:45 (twice); 13:19; 16:4; Luke 11:26; Colossians 1:21; 2 Thessalonians 3:2; and in the following, where Satan is mentioned as "the (or that) evil one:" Matthew 13:38; Ephesians 6:16; 1 John 2:13,14; 3:12 (1st part); 5:18; in John 5:19 for AV, "wickedness;" he is so called also in AV and RV in John 17:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; AV only in Luke 11:4; in 3 John 1:10 , AV, the word is translated "malicious," RV, "wicked."

"lawless" (a, negative, thesmos, "law, custom"), "wicked," occurs in 2 Peter 2:7; 3:17 . An instance of the use of the word is found in the papyri, where a father breaks off his daughter's engagement because he learnt that her fiance was giving himself over to lawless deeds (Moulton and Milligan, Vocab.).

Notes: (1) In Matthew 21:41 , AV, kakos (for which see BAD , No. 1, EVIL, A, No. 1), is translated "wicked" (RV, "miserable"). (2) In Acts 2:23; 2 Thessalonians 2:8 , AV, anomos, "lawless" (RV), is translated "wicked."