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Greek verb · G2558

κακουχέω

kakoucheokak-oo-kheh'-o

to torment

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kakouchéō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2558is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2558

to maltreat

The King James renders it: which suffer adversity, torment.

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

kakoucheo is rendered "to torment". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.

  • Two of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

Hebrews 11:37κακουχούμενοι

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's two uses are in Hebrews.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • being mistreated2

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.

κακόςkakosevil/harm: harmUses50
κακόωkakooto harmUses6
κακολογέωkakologeoto curse/revileUses4
κακοποιέωkakopoieoto do evil/harmUses4
κακοῦργοςkakourgoscriminalUses4
κακοπαθέωkakopatheoto endureUses3
κακοποιόςkakopoioswrongdoingUses3
κακοήθειαkakoetheiamaliceUses1
κακοπάθειαkakopatheiasufferingUses1

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 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

  • κακουχούμενοι1
  • κακουχουμένων1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1V-PPP-GPM
  • verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PPP-NPM

Hebrews

two uses
  • They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

    Hebrews 11:37

    • κακουχούμενοιkakouchoumenoiverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: being mistreated
  • Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

    Hebrews 13:3

    • κακουχουμένωνkakouchoumenonverb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: being mistreated

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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