Definition

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

Etymology

from G2556 (κακός);

Where the KJV renders it

• evil
• malice(-iousness)
• naughtiness
• wickedness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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