mal-e-fak'-ter (kakopoios, "a bad doer," i.e. "evildoer," "criminal"; kakourgos, "a wrongdoer"): The former occurs inJoh 18:30the King James Version, the latter, which is the stronger term, inLu 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.
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, General Editor, 1844–1913 edition.