Quick Definition
κάκωσις, εως, ἡ n.f. affliction, ill-treatment
Strong's Definition
maltreatment
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | κακόω
20.12 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Harm, Wound
mistreatment, oppression act of causing harm or injury to someone or something (a highly generic meaning involving a wide range of harm and injury) In translating terms meaning ‘to harm’ or ‘to injure,’ it may be necessary to specify suffering, for example, ‘to cause people to suffer’ or ‘to cause people to have pain.’
In some languages it may be necessary to translate this expression in ACT 7:34 as passive, for example, ‘I have seen the harm done to my people in Egypt’ or, in the active form, ‘I have seen how the people in Egypt harmed my people.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κάκωσις, -εως, 9, (κακόω), ill-treatment, ill-usage, (Vulg. afflictio): Acts vii. 34. (Ps. xvii. (xviii.) 19; Ex. iit 7, 17; Job xxxi. 29 [Symm.]; Thuc., Xen., Plut., al.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κάκωσις kakōsis 1x
ill treatment, affliction, oppression, misery, Acts 7:34*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κάκωσις, -εως, ἡ
(κακόω), [in LXX (for עֳנִי, רָעָה, etc.): Ex 3:7, Je 2:28, Wi 3:2, al.;]
ill-treatment: Ac 7:34(LXX).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κάκωσις. In PSI III. 15818 (iii/a.p. ?) a certain astrological conjunction is said to signify atexvlav . . καὶ κάκωσιν [σ]ώματοϊ[ 9.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κάκωσις (kakōsis) — oppression. κάκ-ωσις [ᾰ], εως, ἡ, (κᾰκόω) ill-treatment, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; oppression, τοῦ λαοῦ [LXX]
2. especially in Law, ill-usage, of persons by their natural protectors, ὁ τῆς κ. νόμος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. γονέων, ὀρφανῶν, ἐπικλήρου, οἴκου ὀρφανικοῦ, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοκέων κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; also κ. ἐπαρχίας misgovernment, of the Rom. actio repetundarum, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. suffering, distress, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the effects of disease, [Refs 5th c.BC+]