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Koine Greek wordlink #150130

SR GNT 1 Pet 4:15 κακοποιός (kakopoios) ‘or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler’ Strongs=25550 Lemma=kakopoios
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form κακοποιός (S-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κακοποιός’ (S-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘an evildoer’.

1 Pet 4:15 ‘or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler’ SR GNT 1 Pet 4:15 word 14

OET-LV: 15 For/Because not let_ anyone _be _suffering of _you _all as a_murderer, or a_thief, or an_evildoer, or as a_meddler. (PE1_4:15)

OET-RV: 15 None of you should suffer persecution because you’re a murderer or a thief or a troublemaker or nosey-parker, (PE1 4:15)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kakopoios’ have 4 different glosses: ‘an evildoer’, ‘of evildoers’, ‘to evildoers’, ‘evildoers’.

Key: S=substantive adjective NMS=nominative, masculine, singular