Greek verb · G2551
κακολογέω
kakologeokak-ol-og-eh'-o
to curse/revile
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kakologéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2551is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2551
to revile
The King James renders it: curse, speak evil of.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kakologeo is rendered "to curse/revile". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 15:4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Matthew 15:4κακολογῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- speaking evil of3
- to speak evil of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κακός | kakos | evil/harm: harm | Uses50 |
| κακόω | kakoo | to harm | Uses6 |
| κακοποιέω | kakopoieo | to do evil/harm | Uses4 |
| κακοῦργος | kakourgos | criminal | Uses4 |
| κακοπαθέω | kakopatheo | to endure | Uses3 |
| κακοποιός | kakopoios | wrongdoing | Uses3 |
| κακουχέω | kakoucheo | to torment | Uses2 |
| κακοήθεια | kakoetheia | malice | Uses1 |
| κακοπάθεια | kakopatheia | suffering | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κακολογῶν2
- κακολογῆσαί1
- κακολογοῦντες1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PAP-NPM
Matthew
one use
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- κακολογῶνkakologonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: speaking evil of
Mark
two uses
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- κακολογῶνkakologonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: speaking evil of
“Do not stop him,” Jesus replied. “For no one who performs a miracle in My name can turn around and speak evil of Me.
- κακολογῆσαίkakologesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to speak evil of
Acts
one use
But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- κακολογοῦντεςkakologountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: speaking evil of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.