κάκωσις
ill treatment
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2561 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun κακωσις centers on the idea of “ill treatment.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Acts (100%). Its lone occurrence is Acts 7:34. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2561 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Affliction 1×
- American Standard Version: Affliction 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Oppression 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Oppression 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2561 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2561 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2561 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2561 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- ill treatment, ill usage
Word origin
Derived from κακοω (kakóō) (G2559) — to oppress.
From G2559 ; maltreatment : - affliction.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κακωσις appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 3:7 κάκωσις
- Numbers 11:15 κάκωσις
- Deuteronomy 16:3 κάκωσις
- Esther 8:6 κάκωσις
- Psalms 17:19 κάκωσις
- Isaiah 53:4 κάκωσις
- Jeremiah 2:28 κάκωσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2561) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 3:7 κάκωσις Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
- Exodus 3:17 κάκωσις and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
- Numbers 11:15 κάκωσις If you deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
- Deuteronomy 16:3 κάκωσις You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Esther 8:6 κάκωσις for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?
- Psalms 17:19 κάκωσις
- Psalms 43:20 κάκωσις
- Isaiah 53:4 κάκωσις Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
- Jeremiah 2:28 κάκωσις But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
- Jeremiah 11:14 κάκωσις Therefore don't you pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
- Jeremiah 28:2 κάκωσις Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2561) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
