Trickery
ῥᾳδιουργίαStrong’s G4468rhadiourgia
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Rhadiourgia is the Greek word usually translated “craft”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”
Meaning
Usually translated “craft”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- craft 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
ῥᾳδιουργία rhadiourgia · trickery
ῥᾳδιουργία, -ας, ἡ (see: ῥᾳδιούργημα), 1. ease in doing, facility (Xen.). 2. easiness, laziness (Xen.). 3. recklessness, wickedness (of lewdness, Xen.; fraud, Plut.; in π., of theft, MM, xxii): Act.13:10.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “craft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRAFT, noun
- Art; ability; dexterity; skill.
- Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit.“The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death” Mark 14:1
- Art; skill; dexterity in a particular manual occupation; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; trade.“Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth” Acts 19:25
- All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “craft”
CRAFT, verb intransitive
To play tricks. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.