noun · feminine
dikaiōsias
Strong’sG1347
acquittal, justification
stem dikaiōsi-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δικαίωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< δικαιόω), [in LXX for מִשְׁפָּט, Le 24:22 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1347 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddik-ah'-yo-sis
aquittal (for Christ's sake)
Fromfrom G1344;
King Jamesjustification.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
setting right, doing justice to: hence,
1 condemnation, punishment, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 plea of legal right, justification, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 making or accounting righteous, justification, NT
II demand of right or as of right, just claim, Refs 5th c.BC+
III judgement of what is right, ἀντήλλαξαν τῇ δικαιώσει altered at their will and pleasure, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dikaiōsias | dikaiōsiais |
| object accusative | dikaiōsian2×δικαίωσιν | dikaiōsiain |
| direct address vocative | dikaiōsiar | dikaiōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dikaiōsiau | dikaiōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | dikaiōsia | dikaiōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dikaiōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
dikaiōsian“justification”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 4:25… paraptōmeim nu kai egerita dia tan dikaiōsian nu.… was raised to life for our justification.
Romans 5:18… heneu dikaiōmeu eis pantoin anthrōpoin eis dikaiōsian zōau;… also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.