Definition

bad character, i.e. (specially) mischievousness

Etymology

from a compound of G2556 (κακός) and G2239 (ἦθος);

Word family

• κακός kakós
• ἦθος ēthos

How the KJV renders it

• malignity

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.