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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Wicked

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

344exact KJV occurrences 320Old Testament 24New Testament 34books containing the word 17mapped Strong's IDs 323occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 13:13

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where wicked appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 54 verses Exodus 33 verses Leviticus 11 verses Numbers 11 verses Deuteronomy 55 verses 1 Samuel 33 verses 2 Samuel 22 verses 1 Kings 11 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 2 Chronicles 33 verses Nehemiah 11 verses Esther 22 verses Job 3737 verses Psalms 9086 verses Proverbs 8987 verses Ecclesiastes 87 verses Isaiah 1212 verses Jeremiah 1010 verses Ezekiel 3324 verses Daniel 21 verses Micah 22 verses Nahum 33 verses Habakkuk 33 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Malachi 22 verses Matthew 98 verses Luke 22 verses Acts 22 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses Ephesians 11 verses Colossians 11 verses 2 Thessalonians 22 verses 2 Peter 22 verses 1 John 44 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7451
רַע

raʻ · rah

25 times translated as this KJV form657 total Strong's occurrences

a n-m n-f

bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)

Strong's KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 13:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 30:12

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GreekG4190
πονηρός

ponērós · pon-ay-ros'

13 times translated as this KJV form77 total Strong's occurrences

hurtful, i.e. evil (properly, in effect or influence, and thus differing from G2556, which refers rather to essential character, as well as from G4550, which indicates degeneracy from original virtue); figuratively, calamitous; also (passively) ill, i.e. diseased; but especially (morally) culpable, i.e. derelict, vicious, facinorous; neuter (singular) mischief, malice, or (plural) guilt; masculine (singular) the devil, or (plural) sinners

Strong's KJV usage: :--bad, evil, grievous, harm, lewd, malicious, wicked(-ness).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 12:45Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 3:2

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HebrewH205
אָוֶן

ʼâven · aw-ven'

6 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol

Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 22:15Strong's last: Proverbs 6:18

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HebrewH7489
רָעַע

râʻaʻ · raw-ah'

4 times translated as this KJV form83 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)

Strong's KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, × indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Psalms 22:16Strong's last: Psalms 92:11

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GreekG113
ἄθεσμος

áthesmos · ath'-es-mos

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

lawless, i.e. (by implication) criminal

Strong's KJV usage: :--wicked.

Strong's first: 2 Peter 2:7Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:17

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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344 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Matthew 16:4
G4190

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Matthew 18:32
G4190

Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

Matthew 21:41
no direct Strong's tag

They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Matthew 25:26
G4190

His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

Luke 11:26
G4190

Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Luke 19:22
G4190

And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

Acts 2:23
G459

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Acts 18:14
G4190

And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

1 Corinthians 5:13
no direct Strong's tag

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

Ephesians 6:16
G4190

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Colossians 1:21
G4190

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

2 Thessalonians 2:8
G459

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

2 Thessalonians 3:2
G4190

And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

2 Peter 2:7
G113

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2 Peter 3:17
G113

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

1 John 2:13
no direct Strong's tag

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

1 John 2:14
no direct Strong's tag

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 3:12
no direct Strong's tag

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1 John 5:18
no direct Strong's tag

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

wicked

WICKED, adjective [The primary sense is to wind and turn, or to depart, to fall away.]

1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from the divine law; addicted to vice; sinful; immoral. This is a word of comprehensive signification, extending to every thing that is contrary to the moral law, and both to persons and actions. We say, a wicked man, a wicked deed, wicked ways, wicked lives, a wicked heart, wicked designs, wicked works.

No man was ever wicked without secret discontent.

2. A word of slight blame; as the wicked urchin.

3. Cursed; baneful; pernicious; as wicked words, words pernicious in their efforts.

[This last signification may throw some light on the word witch.]

The wicked in Scripture, persons who live in sin; transgressors of the divine law; all who are unreconciled to God, unsanctified or impenitent.

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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