1 Corinthians 13:5:121 Cor.13.5.W12TAB
κακόν
kakon
“evil”
- Transliteration
- ka-KON
- Extended
- kah-KOHN
- IPA
- /kaˈkon/
Meaning by language
- English
- evil
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
ka-KON
- sentence
ouk a-skhê-mo-NEI ou dzê-TEI ta he-au-TÊS ou pa-ro-KSY-ne-tai ou lo-GI-dze-tai to ka-KON
Exegesis
Logizetai to kakon {λογίζεται τὸ κακόν | lo-gí-ze-tai tò ka-kón} employs accounting imagery; “reckoning the evil” pictures keeping an internal ledger of wrongs. The English renderings preserve the parallelism and repeated negatives, maintain present tense to mirror the durative aspect, and recast idiomatic phrases (“seeks the things of itself,” “reckons the evil”) into clear contemporary expressions that still reflect the underlying metaphors of self-interest, provocation, and bookkeeping.
Root and etymology
kakoskappa–alpha–kappa–omicron–sigma
“bad, harmful, evil”
In context — 1 Corinthians 13:5
It does not behave disgracefully , it does not seek its own interests, it is not provoked, it does not reckon the evil done to it.
About this coordinate
1 Corinthians 13:5:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of 1 Corinthians 13:5, so the Greek word κακόν (kakon) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Cor.13.5.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Cor.13.5.W12.S1) and character.