Words the Bible translates as wickedness
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- adikiaἀδικίαunrighteousness: wrongdoing measured against what is right, the opposite of righteousness
- anomiaἀνομίαlawlessness: conduct or a condition set against God's law and rightful order
- kakiaκακίαbadness inside a person: above all ill will toward others, and more broadly a corrupt character and the wrongs it produces.
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- trouble: the hardship or misfortune that a day brings with it.
- ponēriaπονηρίαwickedness: badness as a settled quality in a person, with an edge of active ill will that means somebody harm
- avenאָוֶןevil that comes to nothing: the emptiness, harm, and wickedness of a life set against God
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- resahרֶשַׁעwickedness: wrongdoing that sets itself against what is right, and the guilt it brings
- zimmahזִמָּהdepravity: deliberate, shameless wickedness, most often sexual immorality
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- a scheme: a purpose someone deliberately works out, most often an evil plot
- rishahרִשְׁעָהwickedness: active moral evil and the guilt it carries, the settled opposite of doing right
- mirsha'atמִרְשַׁעַתwickednessnot studied yet
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