πονηρεύω
act wickedly
Where this word appears
Every passage where πονηρεύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Ecclesiastes 7:22 πονηρεύω Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest you hear your servant cursing you.
- Jeremiah 2:33 πονηρεύω What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;
- Jeremiah 16:12 πονηρεύω (and you⌃ sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, you⌃ walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to me);
- Jeremiah 20:13 πονηρεύω Sing you⌃ to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers.
- Jeremiah 45:9 πονηρεύω You have done evil in what you have done to kill this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.
- Jeremiah 49:20 πονηρεύω that you⌃ have wrought wickedness in your hearts, when you⌃ sent me, saying, Pray you for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to you we will do.
About this word
About this word
πονηρεύω (ponēreúō), “act wickedly,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
