kakia · evil, malice

What it means

kakia (κακία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “evil, malice”.

Badness, malice, wickedness; also trouble, the hardship of each day.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The wish to do harm.
2. A trouble that comes, each day's trouble.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• malice ×6
• wickedness ×4
• own trouble ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• Titus×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×2

• Matthew 6:34

  So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

• Acts 8:22

  So change your mind and turn from this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart will be forgiven you.

• Romans 1:29

  filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; they are gossips,

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  So let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

• 1 Corinthians 14:20

  Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, but in malice be infants, and in your thinking be mature.

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness and rage and wrath and shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.

• Colossians 3:8

  But now you also put away all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, obscene talk from your mouth.

• Titus 3:3

  For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

• James 1:21

  Therefore, putting away all filthiness and abundance of wickedness, receive with gentleness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

• 1 Peter 2:1

  So putting away all wickedness and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

• 1 Peter 2:16

  Live as free people, and not as having freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as slaves of God.