Topic
Malefactor
3 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Luke 23:32ISBE
And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
- Luke 23:39ISBE
¶ And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
- John 18:30ISBE
They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
mal-e-fak'-ter (kakopoios, "a bad doer," i.e. "evildoer," "criminal"; kakourgos, "a wrongdoer"): The former occurs in Joh 18:30 the King James Version, the latter, which is the stronger term, in Lu 23:32,39. The former describes the subject as doing or making evil, the latter as creating or originating the bad, and hence, designates the more energetic, aggressive, initiating type of criminality.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.