Luke 23:32
And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
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Malefactors
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Luke 23:39
And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
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κακοῦργος
kakoûrgos · kak-oor'-gos
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a wrong-doer, i.e. criminal
Strong's KJV usage: :--evil-doer, malefactor.
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And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
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And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
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And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
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malefactor
MALEFAC'TOR, noun [supra.] One who commits a crime; one guilty of violating the laws, in such a manner as to subject him to public prosecution and punishment, particularly to capital punishment; a criminal.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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