kakia (evil) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “malice”, “trouble” and “wickedness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

malice 5
trouble 1
wickedness 1
of malice 1
evil 1
of wickedness 1
for evil 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Corinthians 2
1 Peter 2
Matthew 1
Acts 1
Romans 1
Ephesians 1

9 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Romans 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

All 11 verses, by book

Matthew 1: 6:34
Acts 1: 8:22
Romans 1: 1:29
1 Corinthians 2: 5:8 14:20
Ephesians 1: 4:31
Colossians 1: 3:8
Titus 1: 3:3
James 1: 1:21
1 Peter 2: 2:1 2:16

Greek dictionary

κακία kakia · evil

κακία, -ας, ἡ (κακός), [in LXX chiefly for רָאָה ;] 1. badness in quality (opposite to ἀρετή, excellence). 2. wickedness, depravity, malignity: Act.8:22, Rom.1:29, 1Co.5:8 14:20, Eph.4:31, Col.3:8, Tit.3:3, Jas.1:21, 1Pe.2:1 2:16. 3. In late Gk., evil, trouble, affliction (Amo.3:6, 1Ki.6:9, Ecc.7:15, Sir.19:6, al.): Mat.6:34 (cf. MM, Exp., xv).† SYN.: (πονηρία) (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “evil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

E'VIL, adjective

e'vl. [Heb. to be unjust or injurious, to defraud.]

Having bad qualities of a natural kind; mischievous; having qualities which tend to injury, or to produce mischief.“Some evil beast hath devoured him” Genesis 37:20
Having bad qualities of a moral kind; wicked; corrupt; perverse; wrong; as evil thoughts; evil deeds; evil speaking; an evil generation.
Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

All definitions and other forms of “evil”

E'VIL, noun

evil is natural or moral. Natural evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the happiness, or destroys the perfection of natural beings.

Misfortune; mischief; injury.“There shall no evil befall thee” Psalms 91:10“A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself” Proverbs 22:3
Depravity; corruption of heart, or disposition to commit wickedness; malignity.“The heart of the sons of men is full of evil” Ecclesiastes 9:3
Malady; as the king's evil or scrophula.

E'VIL, adverb

[generally contracted to ill.]

Not well; not with justice or propriety; unsuitable.
Not virtuously; not innocently.
Not happily; unfortunately.
Injuriously; not kindly.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.