Gloss
bad, the negative quality of an object; evil, wicked, crime, the negative moral quality of a person or action opposed to God and his goodness; (n.) wicked deed, wicked thing; the Evil One, a title of Satan
Forms of the word
Dictionary
πονηρός, -ά, -όν
Greek transliteration
ponēros
Simplified transliteration
poneros
Numbers
Strong's number
4190
GK Number
4505
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
78
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-1a(1)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for πονηρός
| Matthew 5:11 | Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg neut) against you falsely on account of me. |
| Matthew 5:37 | But let what you say be a simple ‘Yes, or ‘No, anything more than this comes from the evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) one. |
| Matthew 5:39 | But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer (ponērō | πονηρῷ | dat sg neut); but whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other as well. |
| Matthew 5:45 | so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. |
| Matthew 6:13 | And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg neut) one.’ |
| Matthew 6:23 | but if your eye is evil (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc), your whole body will be filled with darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! |
| Matthew 7:11 | If then you, who are evil (ponēroi | πονηροί | nom pl masc), know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! |
| Matthew 7:17 | So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the unhealthy tree bears bad (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) fruit. |
| Matthew 7:18 | A healthy tree cannot bear bad (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) fruit, nor can an unhealthy tree bear good fruit. |
| Matthew 9:4 | And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why are you harboring evil (ponēra | πονηρά | acc pl neut) thoughts in your hearts? |
| Matthew 12:34 | You offspring of snakes! How can you, being evil (ponēroi | πονηροί | nom pl masc), speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. |
| Matthew 12:35 | The good man brings good things out of his good treasure, and the evil (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc) man brings evil (ponēra | πονηρά | acc pl neut) things (ponēra | πονηρά | acc pl neut) out of his evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) treasure. |
| Matthew 12:39 | But he answered them, “An evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom sg fem) and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. |
| Matthew 12:45 | Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more evil (ponērotera | πονηρότερα | acc pl neut comparative) than itself, and they enter and settle down there; and the last state of that person turns out to be worse than the first. So will it be for this evil (ponēra | πονηρᾷ | dat sg fem) generation as well.” |
| Matthew 13:19 | When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc) one (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc) comes and snatches away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. |
| Matthew 13:38 | and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the weeds are the sons of the evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) one; |
| Matthew 13:49 | So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will go out and separate the wicked (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) from the righteous |
| Matthew 15:19 | For out of the heart come evil (ponēroi | πονηροί | nom pl masc) thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. |
| Matthew 16:4 | An evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom sg fem) and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away. |
| Matthew 18:32 | Then his master called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked (ponēre | πονηρέ | voc sg masc) servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. |
| Matthew 20:15 | Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc) my generosity?’ |
| Matthew 22:10 | So those servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, rogues (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) as well as honorable men; and the wedding hall was packed with guests. |
| Matthew 25:26 | But his master answered him, saying, ‘You wicked (ponēre | πονηρέ | voc sg masc) and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? |
| Mark 7:22 | adulteries, greedy actions, wicked deeds, deceit, sensuality, selfishness, slander, arrogance, lack of moral sense. |
| Mark 7:23 | All these evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom pl neut) things come from within, and they defile a person.” |
