G2557: κακοῦργος (kakoûrgos)

G2557 κακοῦργος (kakoûrgos)

Greek

Quick Definition

κακοῦργος, ον Adj a criminal

Strong's Definition

from 2556 and the base of 2041; a wrong-doer, i.e. criminal

KJV Usage: evil-doer, malefactor

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κακοῦργος (G2557)

adjc. | -ου | κακόω + ἐργάζομαι

88.114 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Bad, Evil, Harmful, Damaging

wrongdoer, evildoer, bad person one who customarily engages in doing what is bad

LUK 23:32 · LUK 23:33 · LUK 23:39 · 2TI 2:9

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κακοῦργος, -ov, (contr. from κακόεργος, fr. κακὸν and ἘΡΓῺ ; cf. πανοῦργος, and on the accent of both see Gottling, Lehre ν. Accent, p. 321; [Chandler ὃ 445]), as subst. a malcfactor: 2 Tim. ii. 9; of a robber, Lk. xxiii. 32 sq. [ef. W. 530 (493); B.§150, 3], 39. (Prov. xxi. 15; in Grk. writ. fr. [Soph. and] Hdt. down.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κακοῦργος kakourgos 4x

an evil-doer, malefactor, criminal, Lk. 23:32, 33, 39; 2 Tim. 2:9*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κακοῦργος, -ον

(contr. from epic κακόεργος), [in LXX. Pr 21:15 (אָוֶן פֹּּעֵל), Es 8:13, Si 11:33 33:26 (Si 33:26)*;]

a malefactor, criminal: Lk 23:32, 33, 39, II Ti 2:9.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κακοῦργος. P Lille I. 7?° (iii/B.c.) ἀνενήνοχέν με εἰς τὸ... δεσμωτήριον, φάσκων εἶναί με κακοῦργον, P Hib I. 62° (B.c. 245) κακοῦργον τὸν τ[ὴν] λείαν ποιήσαντα ἐπικαλεῖ Tyas “Apvotdios, P Fay 108% (c. Α.Ὁ. 171) ἐπῆλθαν ἡμεῖν Kakovpyol τινες, and P Amh II. 835 (iii/iv a.p.) where in connexion with a census certain irregularities are alleged οὐχ ὑπὸ τοῦ κηνσίτορος ἀλλ᾽ ὑπό τινων κακούργων. This last document shows also the verb—!? κακουργῆσαι καὶ τολμῆσαι: cf. P Oxy XII. 14684 (c. A.D. 258) τοῖς κακουργεῖν προχείρως ἔχουσιν, ‘those who are designing to commit crime,” and 15 εὗρέν τι κακουργηθέν, ‘she discovered that a crime had been committed,’’ For the subst. see 25. 146918 (A.D. 298) τῆς τοῦ βοηθοῦ tod στρατηγοῦ κακουργίας καταφανοῦς οὔσης, ‘the unfairness of the assistant of the strategus is evident”’ (Edd.), P Oxy I. 71419 (a.p. 303) ἐπειράθη μέν τινα κακουργίαν ἐπὶ ἀποστερέσι τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ ποιήσασθαι διὰ τὸ ἀγράμματόν με εἶναι, ‘he attempted, owing to my being illiterate, to commit a fraud to my detriment” (Edd.). In P Gen I. 3117 (a.p. 145-6) the editor supplies κακούργημα.--ἐάν σοι δόξῃ... πέρας ἐπιθεῖναι τοῖς κ[ακουργήμασι, remarking that the word is strong, but that it is a step-mother who speaks! The adj.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

κακοῦργος (kakourgos) — criminal. κᾰκουργ-ος, Epic dialect κακοεργός (also late Prose, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; δαιμόνια κακοεργά [Refs 5th c.AD+], ον, (ἔργον) doing ill, mischievous, knavish, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+] importunate, [Refs 8th c.BC+]. adverb -γως[Refs 2nd c.AD+]

2. as substantive, malefactor, criminal in the eye of the law, [NT+5th c.BC+]; at Athens, technically, thief, robber, ὁ τῶν κακούργων νόμος [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. with genitive, doing harm to, κ. μὲν τῶν ἄλλων, ἑαυτοῦ δὲ πολὺ -ότερος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, harmful, κ. ἐπιθυμίαι[Refs]