πονηρεύομαι
act wickedly
Where this word appears
Every passage where πονηρεύομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 23 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.
- Genesis 19:7 πονηρεύομαι and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act villanously.
- Genesis 37:18 πονηρεύομαι And they spied him from a distance before he drew near to them, and they wickedly took counsel to kill him.
- Exodus 22:7 πονηρεύομαι And if any one give to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and they be stolen out of the man's house, if the thief be found he shall repay double.
- Exodus 22:10 πονηρεύομαι And if any one give to his neighbor to keep a calf or sheep or any beast, and it be wounded or die or be taken, and no one know,
- Deuteronomy 15:9 πονηρεύομαι Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws near; and your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in lack, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.
- Deuteronomy 19:19 πονηρεύομαι then shall you⌃ do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves.
- 1 Kings 16:25 πονηρεύομαι And Ambri did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and wrought wickedly beyond all that were before him.
- 1 Kings 16:30 πονηρεύομαι And Achaab did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more wickedly than all that were before him.
- 1 Chronicles 16:22 πονηρεύομαι saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and deal not wrongfully with my prophets.
- Psalms 5:5 πονηρεύομαι Neither shall the transgressors continue in your sight: you hate, O Lord, all them that work iniquity.
- Psalms 14:4 πονηρεύομαι In his sight an evil-worker is set at nothing, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints him not.
- Psalms 21:17 πονηρεύομαι They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.
- Psalms 25:5 πονηρεύομαι I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.
- Psalms 36:1 πονηρεύομαι Fret not yourself because of evil-doers, neither be envious of them that do iniquity.
- Psalms 36:8 πονηρεύομαι ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself so as to do evil.
- Psalms 36:9 πονηρεύομαι For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land.
- Psalms 63:3 πονηρεύομαι who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously;
- Psalms 73:3 πονηρεύομαι Lift up your hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
- Psalms 91:12 πονηρεύομαι The righteous shall flourish as a palm tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.
- Psalms 93:16 πονηρεύομαι Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity?
- Psalms 104:15 πονηρεύομαι saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.
- Psalms 118:115 πονηρεύομαι Depart from me, you⌃ evil-doers; for I will search out the commandments of my God.
- Micah 3:4 πονηρεύομαι thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not listen to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.
About this word
About this word
πονηρεύομαι (ponēreúomai), “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 23 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 →