noun · feminine
ponērias
Strong’sG4189
wickedness, iniquities
stem ponēri-7 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books5 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.
πονηρία, -ας, ἡ
(< πονηρός), [in LXX chiefly for רָעָה;]
SYN.: v.s. κακία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4189 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpon-ay-ree'-ah
depravity, i.e. (specially), malice; plural (concretely) plots, sins
Fromfrom G4190;
King Jamesiniquity, wickedness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
bad state or condition, ὀφθαλμῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
II in moral sense, wickedness, vice, knavery, ἡ μωρία.. ἀδελφὴ τῆς π. ἔφυ Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς τὴν π. πάλιν τρέπεται turns again to vice, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, knavish tricks, rogueries, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 baseness, cowardice, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 with a political connotation, mob-rule, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | ponērias | ponēriais1×πονηρίαι |
| object accusative | ponērian1×πονηρίαν | ponēriain |
| direct address vocative | ponēriar | ponēriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ponēriau3×πονηρίας | ponēriaiu1×πονηριῶν |
| to, for dative | ponēria1×πονηρίᾳ | ponēriai |
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
ponēria 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
ponērian“malice”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 22:18“malice”gnōskarantos de tos Iēsus tan ponērian autoiu legata; Tinem min peirazavō, hupokritoir?But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
ponēriau“evil”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Luke 11:39… de esōthen vu gematō harpagau kai ponēriau.… you are full of greed and wickedness.
1 Corinthians 5:8“evil”… palaia mēde en zuma kakiau kai ponēriau, alla en azumei eilikrineiau kai alētheiau.… with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Ephesians 6:12… skoteu houteu, pros teim pneumatikeim tau ponēriau en tei epouranei.… and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
ponēria“wickedness”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 1:29plērorēntoin panta adikia ponēria pleonexia kakia, mestoin fthonou fonou eridau …… become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are …
ponēriais“wickedness”subjectnominative plural1×
Mark 7:22moicheiais, pleonexiais, ponēriais, dolos, aselgeias, ofthalmos ponēros, blasfēmias, huperēfanias, …greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and …
ponēriaiu“wicked”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 3:26… en te apostrefarō hekaston apo taiu ponēriaiu vu.… turning each of you from your wicked ways.”