Greek adjective · G2557
κακοῦργος
kakourgoskak-oor'-gos
criminal
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kakoûrgos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2557is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2557
a wrong-doer, i.e. criminal
The King James renders it: evil-doer, malefactor.
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
kakourgos is rendered "criminal". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 23:32Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.
Luke 23:32κακοῦργοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- criminals3
- an evildoer1
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 |
| κακοποιέω | kakopoieo | to do evil/harm | 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.
4 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
- κακοῦργοι1
- κακοῦργος1
- κακούργους1
- κακούργων1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Luke
three uses
Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.
- κακοῦργοιkakourgoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: criminals
When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.
- κακούργουςkakourgousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: criminals
One of the criminals who hung there heaped abuse on Him. “Are You not the Christ?” he said. “Save Yourself and us!”
- κακούργωνkakourgonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: criminals
2 Timothy
one use
for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
- κακοῦργοςkakourgosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an evildoer
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.