κακοποιῶν (kakopoion)

κακοποιῶν is an Ancient Greek form of κακοποιέω, meaning “do ill, play the knave; manage one's affairs ill”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κακοποιός, “doing ill, mischievous; evil-doers”.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, 1 Peter 2.12: τὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἔχοντες καλήν, ἵνα, ἐν ᾧ καταλαλοῦσιν ὑμῶν ὡς κακοποιῶν, ἐκ τῶν καλῶν ἔργων ἐποπτεύοντες δοξάσωσι τὸν θεὸν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπισκοπῆς.

All forms of κακοποιέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.