Quick Definition
ῥᾳδιούργημα, ατος, τό n.n. an act of villainy
Strong's Definition
easy-going behavior, i.e. (by extension) a crime
Derivation: from a comparative of (easy, i.e. reckless) and G2041 (ἔργον);
KJV Usage: lewdness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | ῥᾳδιος + ἐργάζομαι
88.301 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Sin, Wrongdoing, Guilt
wrongdoing, unscrupulousness to violate moral principles by acting in an unscrupulous manner ῥᾳδιουργία and ῥᾳδιούργημα may often be rendered simply as ‘doing what one should not do.’ These terms also may often be translated merely as ‘cheating.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῥᾳδιούργημα, -τος, τό, (fr. ῥᾳδιουργέω, and this fr. ῥᾳδιsvoyds, compounded of ῥάδιος and EPTQ. A ῥᾳδιουργός is one who does a thing with little effort and adroitly ; then, in a bad sense, a man who is facile and forward in the perpetration of crime, a knave, a rogue), a piece of knavery, rascality, villany: πονηρόν, Acts xviii. 14. (Dion. Hal., Plut., Leian.; eccles. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥᾳδιούργημα rhadiourgēma 1x
pr. anything done lightly, levity; reckless conduct, crime, Acts 18:14*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ῥᾳδιούργημα, -τος, τό
(< ῥᾳδιουργέω, to act recklessly or wrongly)
a reckless act.
crime, villany: Ac 18:14.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ῥᾳδιούργημα (rhadiourgēma) — crime. ῥᾳδιούργ-ημα, ατος, τό, misdeed, villany. [NT+1st c.BC+]
