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Strong's #2550 - κακοήθεια
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- bad character, depravity of heart and life
- malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness
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κᾰκοήθ-εια,
Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
I bad disposition, malignity, Pl. R. 348d, 401a, Hyp. Eux. 32 (-ηθία), Romans 1:29; κ. τὸ ἐπὶ τὸ Χεῖρον ὑπολαμβάνειν ἅπαντα Arist. Rh. 1389b20: pl., κ. ὑπὲρ τοῦ πράγματος λεγόμεναι Aeschin. 1.166, cf. Isoc. 15.284, D.C. Fr. 96.2.
II bad manners or habits, X. Cyn. 13.16.
III Medic., malignant character, τῆς νόσου Epicur. Fr. 471: in pl., malignant diseases or growths, Dsc. 3.92 (v.l. for τὰ -ήθη).
κακοήθεια (κακοηθια WH; see Iota), κακοηθείας, ἡ (from κακοήθης, and this from κακός and ἦθος), bad character, depravity of heart and life, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, others; 4 Macc. 1:4, where cf. Grimm, p. 299; specifically used of malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness: Romans 1:29 (3Macc. 3:22; Additions to Esther 8:1, 12
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** κακοήθεια
(WH, -θία ), -ας , ἡ
(< κακός , ἦθος ),
[in LXX: Ezra 8:13, 3 Maccabees 3:22; 3 Maccabees 7:3 A, 4 Maccabees 1:4; 4 Maccabees 3:4*;]
malignity, malevolence: Romans 1:29 (Cremer, 329).†
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For this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Romans 1:29) see the late P Grenf I. 60.13 (A.D. 581) where the word is found with a number of others of a similar character—ἄνευ παντὸς δόλου καὶ φόβου. . . [καὶ οἱ ]ασδήποτε κακονοίας καὶ κακοηθείας καὶ παντὸς ἐλαττώματος κτλ. The adj. is found in P Giss I. 40ii. 11 (A.D. 212–5) παρὰ το [ῖ ]ς κακοήθεσιν.
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