Lexical Summary kakoētheia: malevolence Original Word: κακοήθειαTransliteration: kakoētheia Phonetic Spelling: (kak-o-ay'-thi-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: malevolence Meaning: malevolence Strong's Concordance malice, malevolenceFrom a compound of kakos and ethos; bad character, i.e. (specially) mischievousness -- malignity. see GREEK kakos see GREEK ethos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2550: κακοήθειακακοήθεια (κακοηθια WH; see Iota), κακοηθείας, ἡ (from κακοήθης, and this from κακός and ἦθος), bad character, depravity of heart and life, Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, others; 4 Macc. 1:4, where cf. Grimm, p. 299; specifically used of malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness: Romans 1:29 (3Macc. 3:22; Additions to Esther 8:1, 12 |