Strong's G2559 κακόω (kakoo)

And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

And Abram said to Sarai, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sarai afflicted her, and she fled from her face.

And they said to him, Stand back there, thou camest in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm thee more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nigh to break the door.

And he set over them taskmasters, who should afflict them in their works; and they built strong cities for Pharaoh, both Pithom, and Rameses, and On, which is Heliopolis.

And Moses turned to the Lord, and said, I pray, Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? and wherefore hast thou sent me?

For from the time that I went to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has afflicted this people, and thou hast not delivered thy people.

And ye shall not hurt a stranger, nor afflict him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Ye shall hurt no widow or orphan.

And if ye should afflict them by ill-treatment, and they should cry aloud to me, I will surely hear their voice.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me?

And Moses was exceedingly indignant, and said to the Lord, Do thou take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them.

And how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we sojourned in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

And one shall come forth from the hands of the Kittim, And shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict the Eberites, And they shall perish together.

And on the tenth of this month there shall be to you a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls, and ye shall do no work.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thy heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

And he afflicted thee and straitened thee with hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might teach thee that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.

who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

And the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed hard tasks on us:

And I smote Egypt with the wonders that I wrought among them.

Whensoever ye shall forsake the Lord and serve other gods, then he shall come upon you and afflict you, and consume you, because he has done you good.

I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Naomi, whereas the Lord has humbled me, and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Depart thou quickly to Anathoth to thy farm, for thou art worthy of death this day; but I will not slay thee, because thou hast borne the ark of the covenant of the Lord before my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all things wherein my father was afflicted.

And Elijah cried aloud, and said, Alas, O Lord, the witness of the widow with whom I sojourn, thou hast wrought evil for her in slaying her son.

And let all darkness wait for him: A fire that burns not out shall consume him; And let a stranger plague his house.

But thou hast sent widows away empty, And hast afflicted orphans.

For his exaltation has hurt many; But he has withered as mallows in the heat, Or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.

For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: They also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

Let then mine ear hear my curse, And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.

When evildoers drew nigh against me to eat up my flesh, My persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell.

I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: Thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.

The enemy shall have no advantage against him; And the son of transgression shall not hurt him again.

They have afflicted thy people, O Lord, And hurt thy heritage.

They provoked him also at the water of Strife, And Moses was hurt for their sakes;

Again they become few, and are brought low, By the pressure of evils and pain.

For many times he shall trespass against thee, And repeatedly shall he afflict thy heart; For thus also hast thou cursed others.

So I saw all this, And I applied my heart to every work That has been done under the sun; All the things wherein man has power Over man to afflict him.

tell us, declare ye to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.

And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.

For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.

And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.

Say to the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous erring shall not be able to deliver himself.

And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to afflict thyself before the Lord thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words.

The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a candle, and will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will he do any evil.

For thus saith the Lord Almighty; As I took counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord Almighty, and I repented not:

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

Then said Holofernes unto her, Woman, be of good comfort, fear not in thy heart: for I never hurt any that was willing to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of all the earth.

And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.

But these very grievously afflicted them, Whom they had received with feastings, And were already made partakers of the same laws with them.

A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last; And he that loveth danger shall perish therein.

Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil, Nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.

Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, And what evil can come to me hereafter?

By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: And he altered seasons and feasts.

Forget him not, for there is no turning again: Thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

For they entreated him evil, Who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, That he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; And that he might build up also, and plant.

Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.