Quick Definition
ῥᾳδιουργία, ας, ἡ n.f. craftiness, villainy
Strong's Definition
recklessness, i.e. (by extension) malignity
Derivation: from the same as G4467 (ῥᾳδιούργημα);
KJV Usage: mischief
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ῥᾳδιούργημα
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
ῥᾳδιουργία, -as, ἡ, (see ῥᾳδιούργημα, cf. πανουργία); 1. prop. ease in doing, facility. 2. levity or easiness in thinking and acting; love of a lazy and effeminate life (Xen.). 3. unscrupulousness, cunning, mischief, [A. V. villany]: Acts xiii. 10. (Polyb. 12, 10, 5; often in Plut.) * [patvw; see ῥαντίζω.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥᾳδιουργία rhadiourgia 1x
facility of doing anything; levity in doing; recklessness, wickedness, Acts 13:10*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ῥᾳδιουργία, -ας, ἡ
(v.s. ῥᾳδιούργημα),
ease in doing, facility (Xen.).
easiness, laziness (Xen.).
recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen.; fraud, Plut.; in π., of theft, MM, xxii): Ac 13:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥᾳδιουργία. For ῥᾳδιουργία in the general sense of ‘‘ false pretences,” ef. P Oxy II. 237%) 19 (A.p, 186) εἴτε πλαστῶν γραμμάτων ἢ ῥᾳδιουργίας ἢ περιγραφῆς ἐνκαλεῖν, “τὸ 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°43 (B.c, 116) (= Chrest. 11. p. 36) κακοτρόπως καὶ ἐπὶ ῥαιδιουργίαι παρακεῖσθαι αὐτὸν τὴν συνχώρησιν, Preisigke 5656! (A.D. 568) χωρὶς ῥαδιουργίας καὶ ἀταξίας, and P Strass I. 4080 (A.D. 569) δίχα παντοίας μέμψεως καὶ καταγνώσεως καὶ ῥαδιουργίας. The special meaning of “theft”? is seen in P Magd 35" (B.c. 216) (= 776]. Nicole Ῥ. 454) περὶ δὲ τῆς ῥαιδιουργίας with reference to the theft of a mantle, and in BGU I. 22614 (A.D. 99). For the verb see P Tebt I. 4215 (c. B.c. 114) (= Chrest. I. p. 385) ῥαδιουργημένας (for form cf. Mayser Gy. pp. 120, 408), and P Flor III. 294°° (vi/A.p.) ῥᾳδιουργῆσαι, and for the adj. ῥαδιουργός see P Lond IV. 1338%® (a.p. 709), 1349%7 (A.D. 710).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ῥᾳδιουργία (rhadiourgia) — trickery. ῥᾳδιουργ-ία, ἡ, self-indulgence, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. laziness, sloth,[Refs]
II. knavery, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; δόλος καὶ ῥ. [NT]; of historians, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; fraud, [Refs 1st c.AD+]