noun · masculine
kakopoios
Strong’sG2555
an evil-doer
stem kakopoi-3 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
κακοποιός, -όν
(< κακόν, ποιέω), [in LXX: Pr 12:4 (בּוּשׁ hi.) Pr 24:19 (רעע hi.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2555 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
doing ill, mischievous, ὄνειδος Refs 5th c.BC+; σκεῦος, of a man, Refs 2nd c.BC+; κακοποιοί evil-doers, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially of poisoners and sorcerers, NT; of things, noxious, Χυλός Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ κ. [τῆς ὕλης] Refs 4th c.BC+: Astrology texts, maleficent, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kakopoios1×κακοποιὸς | kakopoiois |
| object accusative | kakopoion | kakopoioin |
| direct address vocative | kakopoior | kakopoioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kakopoiou | kakopoioiu2×κακοποιῶν |
| to, for dative | kakopoio | kakopoioi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kakopoio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kakopoios“evildoer”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Peter 4:15“evildoer”… paschatōr hōs fonevos ē kleptos ē kakopoios ē hōs allotriepiskopos;… you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
kakopoioiu“evildoers”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
1 Peter 2:12… hina, en he katalalalō vu hōs kakopoioiu, ek teiu kaleiu ergeiu epopteuarōntois doxazaleia …… that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds …
1 Peter 2:14… hōs dia autou pemporōntoi eis ekdikēsian kakopoioiu epainon de agathopoioiu… sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do …