Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Topic: Wicked
<1,,4190,poneros>
for which see BAD, No. 2, EVIL, A and B, No. 2, is translated "wicked"
in the AV and RV in Matt. 13:49; 18:32; 25:26; Luke 19:22; Acts 18:14;
1 Cor. 5:13; in the following the RV substitutes "evil" for AV, "wicked:"
Matt. 12:45 (twice); 13:19; 16:4; Luke 11:26; Col. 1:21; 2 Thess. 3:2;
and in the following, where Satan is mentioned as "the (or that) evil one:"
Matt. 13:38; Eph. 6:16; 1 John 2:13,14; 3:12 (1st part); 5:18; in John
5:19 for AV, "wickedness;" he is so called also in AV and RV in John 17:15;
2 Thess. 3:3; AV only in Luke 11:4; in 3 John 1:10, AV, the word is translated
"malicious," RV, "wicked."
<2,,113,athesmos>
"lawless" (a, negative, thesmos, "law, custom"), "wicked," occurs in
2 Pet. 2:7; 3:17. An instance of the use of the word is found in the papyri,
where a father breaks off his daughter's engagement because he learnt that
her fiance was giving himselfover to lawless deeds (Moulton and Milligan,
Vocab.).
Notes: (1) In Matt. 21:41, AV, kakos (for which see BAD,
No. 1, EVIL,
A, No. 1), is translated "wicked" (RV, "miserable"). (2) In Acts 2:23;
2 Thess 2:8, AV, anomos, "lawless" (RV), is translated "wicked."