Quick Definition
craftiness, villainy
Strong's Definition
recklessness, i.e. (by extension) malignity
Derivation: from the same as G4467 (ῥᾳδιούργημα);
KJV Usage: mischief
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤᾳδιουργία, ῤᾳδιουργίας, ἡ (see ῤᾳδιούργημα, cf. πανουργία);
1. properly, ease in doing, facility.
2. levity or easiness in thinking and acting; love of a lazy and effeminate life (Xenophon).
3. unscrupulousness, cunning, mischief (A. V. villany): Act_13:10. (Polybius 12, 10, 5; often in Plutarch.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥᾳδιουργία rhadiourgia 1x
facility of doing anything; levity in doing; recklessness, wickedness, Act_13:10
Ῥαιφάν Rhaiphan 1x
pr. name., Rephan, Act_7:43
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ῥᾳδιουργία , -ας , ἡ
( see ῥᾳδιούργημα ),
1. ease in doing, facility ( Xen .).
2. easiness, laziness ( Xen .).
3. recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen .; fraud, Plut .; in Papyri, of theft, MM , xxii): Act_13:10 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥᾳδιουργία [page 562]
For ῥᾳδιουργία in the general sense of false pretences, cf. P Oxy II. 237 viii. 15 (A.D. 186) εἴτε πλαστῶν γραμμάτων ἤ ῥᾳδιουργίας ἢ περιγραφῆς ἐνκαλεῖν , to make a charge either of forgery or false pretences or fraud (Edd.) (but see Archiv i. p. 182) : cf. the wider usage in P Tor I. 1 vi. 3 (B.C. 116) (= Chrest . II. p. 36 ) κακοτρόπως καὶ ἐπὶ ῥαιδιουρ̣γίαι παρακεῖσθαι αὐτὸν τὴν συνχώρησιν , Preisigke 5656 .12 (A.D. 568) χωρὶς ῥαδιουργ̣ίας κα̣ι̣̣ ἀταξίας , and P Strass I. 40 .30 (A.D. 569) δίχα παντοίας μέμψεως καὶ καταγνώσεως καὶ ῥαδιουργίας . The special meaning of theft is seen in P Magd 35 .11 (B.C. 216) (= Mιl. Nicole p. 454) περὶ δὲ τῆς ῥαιδιουργίας with reference to the theft of a mantle, and in BGU I. 226 .14 (A.D. 99).
For the verb see P Tebt I. 42 .16 ( c . B.C. 114) (= Chrest . I. p. 385 ) ῥαδιουργημένας (for form cf. Mayser Gr , pp. 120, 408), and P Flor III. 294 .55 (vi/A.D.) ῥᾳδιουργῆσαι , and for the adj. ῥαδιουργός see P Lond IV. 1338 .29 (A.D. 709), 1349 .37 (A.D. 710).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ῥᾳδιουργία ῥᾳδιουργία, ἡ, "ease in doing, facility", Xen. "easiness, laziness, sloth", id=Xen. "recklessness, want of principle, wickedness, lewdness", id=Xen. : "fraud", Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ῥᾳδιουργία, -ας, ἡ
(see: ῥᾳδιούργημα),
__1. ease in doing, facility (Xen.).
__2. easiness, laziness (Xen.).
__3. recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen.; fraud, Plut.; in π., of theft, MM, xxii): Act.13:10.†
(AS)