2557. kakourgos
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kakourgos: a criminal
Original Word: κακοῦργος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: kakourgos
Phonetic Spelling: (kak-oor'-gos)
Short Definition: a criminal
Definition: (lit: an evil-worker), a criminal.

HELPS word-Studies

2557 kakoúrgos (from 2556 /kakós, "a malignant disposition") – "a malefactor; a technical word implying criminality. William Ramsay noted this term "marks exactly the tone of the Neronian period, and . . . refers expressly to the flagitia, for which the Christians were condemned under Nero, and for which they were no longer condemned in ad 112" (WS).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from kakos and the same as ergon
Definition
a criminal
NASB Translation
criminal (1), criminals (3).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 2557: κακοῦργος

κακοῦργος, κακουργον (contracted from κακοεργος, from κακόν and ἘΡΓΩ; cf. πανοῦργος, and on the accent of both see Göttling, Lehre v. Accent, p. 321; (Chandler § 445)), as a substantive, a malefactor: 2 Timothy 2:9; of a robber, Luke 23:32f (cf. Winers Grammar, 530 (493); Buttmann, § 150, 3), 39. (Proverbs 21:15; in Greek writings from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down.)



Strong's
a criminal

From kakos and the base of ergon; a wrong-doer, i.e. Criminal -- evil-doer, malefactor.

see GREEK kakos

see GREEK ergon

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