Kakía — G2549

Definition

feminine noun

badness, i.e. (subjectively) depravity, or (actively) malignity, or (passively) trouble

1. malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure
2. wickedness, depravity
3. Hellenistically, evil, trouble

Usually translated as

malice, maliciousness, evil, naughtiness, wickedness

Origin

from G2556

• kakós (G2556)

Occurrences

Kakía occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Acts (1), Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (2), Ephesians (1), Colossians (1), Titus (1), James (1), 1 Peter (2)

• Matthew 6:34 — Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil (κακίᾳ) thereof.
• Acts 8:22 — Repent therefore of this thy wickedness (κακίας), and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
• Romans 1:29 — Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness (κακίᾳ); full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• 1 Corinthians 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice (κακίας) and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
• 1 Corinthians 14:20 — Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice (κακίᾳ) be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• Ephesians 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice (κακίᾳ):
• Colossians 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice (κακίαν), blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice (κακίᾳ) and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• James 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness (κακίας), and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• 1 Peter 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice (κακίαν), and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness (κακίας), but as the servants of God.