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πονηρός

Vocabulary form: 
ponhrovV, -av, -ovn
Definition: 

evil, bad

Frequency: 
78
GK: 
4505
Root: 
ponhro
Cognates: 

Ponera is a genus of stinging ants.

Mnemonics

Pona means to heal, recover or get well in Shona or Swahili (African languages) so the man had to pona from the evil, bad robber after the robber stabbed him.

That pony, Rose, is evil!

I'm pwning Ross; he's such a bad player (though, I'm kinda evil for beating him all the time, aren't I?)

Biblical Concordance

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.”
Luke 3:19 But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him concerning Herodias, the wife of his brother, and concerning all the evil (ponērōn | πονηρῶν | gen pl neut) things (ponērōn | πονηρῶν | gen pl neut) which Herod had done,
Luke 6:22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg neut) on account of the Son of Man!
Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and evil (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc).
Luke 6:45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc) person out of his evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) treasure produces evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg neut), for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Luke 7:21 In that hour he healed many people of diseases, sicknesses and evil (ponērōn | πονηρῶν | gen pl neut) spirits; and to many who were blind he gave the ability to see.
Luke 8:2 as well as certain women who had been healed from evil (ponērōn | πονηρῶν | gen pl neut) spirits and diseases (Mary who is called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil (ponēroi | πονηροί | nom pl masc), know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
Luke 11:26 Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil (ponērotera | πονηρότερα | acc pl neut comparative) than itself, — seven of them! — and after going in they settle down to live there. So the last state of that person has become worse than the first.”
Luke 11:29 As the crowds were getting larger, Jesus began to say, “This generation is an evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom sg fem) generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
Luke 11:34 Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc), then your body is full of darkness.
Luke 19:22 He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, wicked (ponēre | πονηρέ | voc sg masc) servant. You knew, did you, that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
John 3:19 And the basis for judging is this, that light has come into the world and people love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom pl neut).
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I am bearing witness against it that its works are evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom pl neut).
John 17:15 I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) one.
Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved by envy, recruited certain wicked (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city in an uproar. They attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the people.
Acts 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) piece (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) of villainy, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you.
Acts 19:12 so that handkerchiefs and aprons were carried off from his body for the sick, and diseases were driven away by them and evil (ponēra | πονηρά | acc pl neut) spirits came out.
Acts 19:13 But some also of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those having evil (ponēra | πονηρά | acc pl neut) spirits, saying, “I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
Acts 19:15 But the evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) spirit answering said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
Acts 19:16 And the man in whom was the evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) spirit leaped on them, took control and overpowered all seven of them, so that they fled, naked and wounded, out of that house.
Acts 25:18 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such evils (ponērōn | πονηρῶν | gen pl neut) as I was expecting,
Acts 28:21 And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or spoken any bad (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg neut) about you.
Romans 12:9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg neut); hold fast to what is good.
1 Corinthians 5:13 But God will judge those outside. “Remove the evil (ponēron | πονηρόν | acc sg masc) person from among you.”
Galatians 1:4 who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) age, according to the will of our God and Father,

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