1. wickedness, evil, malice — The quality or state of being morally evil, wicked, or malicious; encompasses both the abstract concept of wickedness and its concrete manifestations (wicked deeds, malicious intentions). All three clusters represent the same lexical meaning in different inflectional forms: S75345 covers singular and plural across genitive, accusative, nominative, and dative cases; S75346 is the genitive feminine plural ('of wickednesses'); S75351 is the genitive feminine singular ('of wickedness'). Multilingual evidence is highly consistent: Spanish 'maldad' / 'maldades' / 'de perversidad' (wickedness / wicked deeds / of perversity), Hindi 'dushtata' / 'buraai' (wickedness / evil), Arabic 'shuruur' / 'shuruurikum' / 'al-khubthi' (evils / your evils / malice, all within the wickedness semantic field), Korean 'akham' / 'akhamdeul' / 'akham' (wickedness / wickednesses / wickedness), Swahili 'uovu' / 'maovu' / 'ubaya' (evil / evils / badness). The variation is purely grammatical number and case, not semantic. 7×
AR["الخُبْثِ","الشَّرِّ","خُبثَهُم","شَرٍّ","شَرّاً","شُرُورٌ","شُرُورِكُمْ"]·ben["দুষ্টতা","দুষ্টতা,","দুষ্টতায়","মন্দতা","মন্দতা-র","মন্দতার,"]·DE["Bosheit","Schlechtigkeit"]·EN["of-wickedness","wickedness","wickednesses"]·FR["méchanceté"]·heb["הַ-","רִשְׁעָה","רָעוֹת","רֹעַ"]·HI["दुष्टता","देखो","बुरऐ","बुराई"]·ID["kebejatan,","kejahatan","kejahatan,"]·IT["malvagita","poneriai","ponerian","ponerias","ponērias"]·jav["awon,","duraka","duraka,","kadurjanan,","kadursilan","kajahatan","piawon"]·KO["악-의","악으로","악의-를","악함","악함들","악함들-로부터"]·PT["de-maldade","maldade","maldades","malícia"]·RU["зла","злобы","злодеяний","лукавства,","лукавство","порочности"]·ES["de-maldad","de-perversidad","maldad","maldades"]·SW["maovu","ubaya,","uovu","uovu,","wao"]·TR["kotulugu","kötülükle","kötülükler","kötülüklerinden","kötülüğün","kötülüğünü"]·urd["بدنیتی","بدی","برائیوں","بُرائی-سے","شرارت","شرارت-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
πονηρ-ία, ἡ, bad state or condition, ὀφθαλμῶν Refs 5th c.BC+ __II in moral sense, wickedness, vice, knavery, ἡ μωρία.. ἀδελφὴ τῆς π. ἔφυ Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς τὴν π. πάλιν τρέπεται turns again to vice, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, knavish tricks, rogueries, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II.2 baseness, cowardice, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.3 with a political connotation, mob-rule, Refs 5th c.BC+