UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: mistreatment, oppression

Semantic entry: 20.12

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Harm, Wound

Definition: act of causing 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.’|In some languages it may be necessary to translate this expression in RV ACT 7:34 · LV ACT 7:34 · Read together ACT 7:34 as passive, for example, ‘I have seen the harm done to my people in Egypt’ or, in the active form, ‘I have seen how the people in Egypt harmed my people.’