Lexical Summary rhadiourgēma: a reckless act, a crime Original Word: ῥᾳδιούργημαTransliteration: rhadiourgēma Phonetic Spelling: (hrad-ee-oorg'-ay-mah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a reckless act, a crime Meaning: a reckless act, a crime Strong's Concordance lewdness. From a comparative of rhaidios (easy, i.e. Reckless) and ergon; easy-going behavior, i.e. (by extension) a crime -- lewdness. see GREEK ergon Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4467: ῤᾳδιούργημαῤᾳδιούργημα, ῥαδιουργηματος, τό (from ῤᾳδιουργέω, and this from ῤᾳδιουργός, compounded of ῤᾴδιος and ἔργῳ. A ῤᾳδιουργός is one who does a thing with little effort and adroitly; then, in a bad sense, a man who is facile and forward in the perpetration of crime, a knave, a rogue), a piece of knavery, rascality, villany: πονηρόν, Acts 18:14. (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Lucian; ecclesiastical writings.) |
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