UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to harm, to hurt, to injure

Semantic entry: 20.12

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Harm, Wound

Definition: to cause harm or injury to someone or something (a highly generic meaning involving a wide range of harm and injury)

Notes: In translating terms meaning ‘to harm’ or ‘to injure,’ it may be necessary to specify suffering, for example, ‘to cause people to suffer’ or ‘to cause people to have pain.’

ACT 7:6: RV ACT 7:6 · LV ACT 7:6 · Read together ACT 7:6

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OET-RV ACT 7:6

6 And yet God also told him that his descendants would end up staying in another country where they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

OET-LV ACT 7:6

6 But the god spoke thus that will _be the descendants of _him:
a_sojourner in anothers land, and they _will _be _enslaving it and they _will _be _mistreating it four _hundred years.

ACT 7:19: RV ACT 7:19 · LV ACT 7:19 · Read together ACT 7:19

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OET-RV ACT 7:19

19 He took advantage of us Yehudim (Jews) and mistreated our ancestors, even forcing them apart from their own babies so they wouldn’t live.

OET-LV ACT 7:19

19 This man, having _taken _advantage of _the race of _us, mistreated the fathers which to _be _making the babies of _them abandoned, in _order that to_ not _be _being _kept _alive.

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

ACT: RV ACT 7:6 · RV ACT 7:19 · RV ACT 12:1 · RV ACT 18:10 · LV ACT 7:6 · LV ACT 7:19 · LV ACT 12:1 · LV ACT 18:10 · Read together ACT 7:6 · Read together ACT 7:19 · Read together ACT 12:1 · Read together ACT 18:10

PE1: RV PE1 3:13 · LV PE1 3:13 · Read together PE1 3:13

Sense 2: to turn someone against, to cause to dislike

Semantic entry: 88.200

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Hate, Hateful

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to cause a person’s attitude to be bad against) to cause someone to have hostile feelings of dislike toward someone

Collocations: κακόω τὴν ψυχὴν κατά

ACT 14:2: RV ACT 14:2 · LV ACT 14:2 · Read together ACT 14:2

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OET-RV ACT 14:2

2 But those Yehudim who didn’t believe got the non-Jews emotionally stirred up to oppose the believers.

OET-LV ACT 14:2

2 But the Youdaiōns having _disbelieved stirred _up and mistreated the hearts of _the pagans against the brothers.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κακόω

Form 1

Sense 1: to harm, to hurt, to injure

Sense 2: to turn someone against, to cause to dislike