Bible Dictionary: Vicious

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

2. (a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.

3. (a.) Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.

4. (a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

5. (a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

6. (a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

Greek

4190. poneros -- toilsome, bad
... Usage bad (5), crimes (1), envious (1), envy* (1), evil (50), evil one (5), evil
things (1), malignant (1), more evil (1), more wicked (1), vicious (1), wicked ...
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2549. kakia -- wickedness
... kak-ee'-ah) Short Definition: evil, wickedness, malice Definition: (a) evil (ie
trouble, labor, misfortune), (b) wickedness, (c) vicious disposition, malice ...
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2550. kakoetheia -- malevolence
... Cognate: 2550 (from 2556 , "an evil, vicious disposition" and 2239 , "custom") --
a disposition (character) that fosters and fondles evil . ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6530. parits -- violent one
... Word Origin from parats Definition violent one NASB Word Usage ones* (1), robbers
(2), vicious (1), violent (3). destroyer, ravenous, robber. ...
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5056. naggach -- given to goring (used of bulls)
... used wont to push. From nagach; butting, ie Vicious -- used (wont) to push. see
HEBREW nagach. 5055, 5056. naggach. 5057 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Whether vice is Worse than a vicious Act?
... EVIL HABITS, ie VICES AND SINS (QQ -89) Whether vice is worse than a vicious act? ...
Now a vicious habit is more lasting than vicious acts, that pass forthwith. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether vice is worse than.htm

How vicious Souls, However Worthy of Condemnation they May Be ...
... Chapter 5. "How Vicious Souls, However Worthy of Condemnation They May
Be, Excel the Light Which is Praiseworthy in Its Kind. ...
/.../chapter 5 name vicious souls.htm

Whence, Therefore, have These vicious Opinions Flowed, or from ...
... Book VII. 34 Whence, therefore, have these vicious opinions flowed, or
from what causes have they sprung? From� Whence, therefore ...
/.../34 whence therefore have these.htm

Whether Everyone that Sins through Habit, Sins through Certain ...
... formed" (Ethic. ii, 1,2). But the acts which precede a vicious habit are
not committed through certain malice. Therefore the sins ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether everyone that sins through.htm

The Misery of them who have and Prize Not
... The one are more odious and, less sensible; more foolish, and more vicious: the
senses of the other are exceeding keen and quick upon them; yet are they not so ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/49 the misery of them.htm

Whether Generation Should have Taken Place Even in Paradise had ...
... his De Republica, adopt a simile from human nature, and say that we command our
bodily members as children, they are so obedient; but that the vicious parts of ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 23 whether generation should have.htm

That it is Now Necessary, as it was not Before Man Sinned, to ...
... Hence it is that even the philosophers who have approximated to the truth have avowed
that anger and lust are vicious mental emotions, because, even when ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 19 that it is now.htm

Of the Affections, and the Opinion of the Peripatetics Respecting ...
... and how necessarily God, or nature (for so they term it), armed us with these
affections; which, however, because they generally become vicious if they are in ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xv of the affections and.htm

Upon Human Nature.
... II. Nature is frequently spoken of as consisting in those passions which are strongest,
and most influence the actions; which being vicious ones, mankind is in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/butler/human nature/sermon ii iii upon human.htm

Proposition Though the Necessity and Indispensableness of all the ...
... and violent the unreasonable lusts, appetites, and desires of sense; and so great
the blindness introduced by superstitious opinions, vicious customs, and ...
/.../v proposition v though the.htm

Thesaurus

Vicious (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked;
as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct. ...
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Profligate (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Broken down in principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly
immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch. ...
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Vicinity (18 Occurrences)

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Jezebel (20 Occurrences)
... founder of Carthage. Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A bold, vicious woman;
a termagant. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. JEZEBEL. jez'-e ...
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Viciously (1 Occurrence)

/v/viciously.htm - 6k

Vagabond (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
4. (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. ...
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Nero
... Germanicus. His father was Enaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ("Brazen-beard"), a man
sprung from an illustrious family and of vicious character. ...
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Lewd (37 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Obscene; lustful; lascivious; indecent. 2. (superl.) Belonging to the
lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. ...
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Lazy (10 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. 3. (superl.)
Wicked; vicious. Multi-Version Concordance Lazy (10 Occurrences). ...
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Lewdness (68 Occurrences)
... The word "lewd" is from the Saxon, and means properly "ignorant," "unlearned," and
hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Bible Concordance

Vicious (3 Occurrences)

Acts 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
(See NAS RSV)

Acts 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
(WEB)

Isaiah 35:9 No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
(See NAS)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Profligate (3 Occurrences)

Vicinity (18 Occurrences)

Jezebel (20 Occurrences)

Viciously (1 Occurrence)

Vagabond (4 Occurrences)

Nero

Lewd (37 Occurrences)