Greek verb · G2554
κακοποιέω
kakopoieokak-op-oy-eh'-o
to do evil/harm
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kakopoiéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2554is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2554
to be a bad-doer, i.e. (objectively) to injure, or (genitive) to sin
The King James renders it: do(ing) evil.
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
kakopoieo is rendered "to do evil/harm". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 3:4And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
Mark 3:4κακοποιῆσαι
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
- doing evil2
- to do evil2
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 |
| κακολογέω | kakologeo | to curse/revile | 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
- κακοποιῆσαι2
- κακοποιοῦντας1
- κακοποιῶν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine plural1V-PAP-APM
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
Mark
one use
And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
- κακοποιῆσαιkakopoiesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do evil
Luke
one use
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
- κακοποιῆσαιkakopoiesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to do evil
1 Peter
one use
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
- κακοποιοῦνταςkakopoiountasverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: doing evil
3 John
one use
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
- κακοποιῶνkakopoionverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: doing evil
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.