Definition

badly (physically or morally)

Etymology

from G2556 (κακός);

Word family

• κακός kakós

How the KJV renders it

• amiss
• diseased
• evil
• grievously
• miserably
• sick
• sore

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.