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noun · feminine

Greekδίκη (dikē)
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dikas

Strong’sG1349

justice, judicial hearing, punishment

stem dik-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.

δίκη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX for נקם, ריב, etc.;]

1. custom.
2. right.
3. a judicial hearing; hence its result, the execution of a sentence, punishment: δ. τίνειν, II Th 1:9; δ. υπεχειν, Ju 7.
4. Personified (cf. Lat. Justitia), justice, vengeance: Ac 28:4.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1349 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddee'-kay

right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)

Fromprobably from G1166;

King Jamesjudgment, punish, vengeance.

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
δίκη [ῐ], ἡ,
custom, usage, αὕτη δ. ἐστὶ βροτῶν this is the way of mortals, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡ γὰρ δ., ὁππότε.. this is always the way, when.., Refs 2nd c.AD+; δίκαν ἐφέπειν τινός to imitate him, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἐπέχειν τινός to be like.., Refs 1st c.AD+; normal course of nature, ἐκ τουτέων ὁ θάνατος οὐ γίνεται κατά γε δίκην, οὐδ᾽ ἢν γένηται Refs 5th c.BC+
2 adverbial in accusative δίκην, in the way of, after the manner of, with genitive, λύκοιο Refs 5th c.BC+; in later Prose, Refs 5th c.BC+
II order, right, μή τι δίκης ἐπιδευές nothing short of what is fit, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to σχέτλια ἔργα, Refs 8th c.BC+; Truth, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 δίκη ἐστί, ={δίκαιόν ἐστι}, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 Adverb. usages, δίκῃ duly, rightly, Refs 8th c.BC+ on the score of justice, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίχα δίκης without trial, Refs 1st c.AD+; πρὸ δίκης in preference to legal proceedings, Refs 5th c.BC+
III judgement, δίκην ἰθύντατα εἰπεῖν give judgement most righteously (compare ἰθύς), Refs 8th c.BC+
IV after Refs 8th c.BC+, of proceedings instituted to determine legal rights, hence,
IV.1 lawsuit, Refs 5th c.BC+; properly private suit or action, opposed to γραφή (which see), Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ δίκην ἔχοντες the parties to a suit, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV.2 trial of the case, πρὸ δίκης Refs 5th c.BC+; court by which it was tried, ἐν ὑμῖν ἐστι καὶ τῇ δίκῃ Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.2.b δίκην εἰπεῖν to plead a cause, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.3 the object or consequence of the action, atonement, satisfaction, penalty, δίκην ἐκτίνειν, τίνειν, Refs 5th c.BC+: adverbially in accusative, τοῦ δίκην πάσχεις τάδ; Refs 4th c.BC+; frequently δίκην or δίκας διδόναι suffer punishment, i. e. make amends (but δίκας δ., in Refs 4th c.BC+, to grant arbitration); δίκας διδόναι τινί τινος Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἀντί or ὑπέρ τινος, Refs 5th c.BC+; also δίκην διδόναι ὑπὸ θεῶν to be punished by.., Refs 5th c.BC+; but δίκας ἤθελον δοῦναι they consented to submit to trial, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκας λαμβάνειν sometimes ={δ. διδόναι}, Refs 5th c.BC+; more frequently its correlative, inflict punishment, take vengeance, Refs 5th c.BC+; so δίκην ἔχειν to have one's punishment, Refs 5th c.BC+ have satisfaction, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκας or δίκην ὑπέχειν stand trial, Refs 5th c.BC+; θανάτου δίκην ὀφλεῖν ὑπό τινος to incur the death penalty, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκην φεύγειν try to escape it, be the defendant in the trial (opposed to διώκειν prosecute), Refs 4th c.BC+; δίκας αἰτέειν demand satisfaction, τινός for a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+; τινός for a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκας ἑλεῖν, see at {ἔρημος} 11; δίκην τείσασθαι, see at {τίνω} 11; δὸς δὲ δίκην καὶ δέξο παρὰ Ζηνί Refs; δίκας διδόναι καὶ λαμβάνειν παρ᾽ ἀλλήλων, of communities, submit causes to trial, Refs 5th c.BC+; δίκας δοῦναι καὶ δέξασθαι submit differences to a peaceful settlement, Refs 5th c.BC+
V Refs 4th c.BC+ name for three, Refs 1st c.AD+; for five, Refsdiś-, diśā 'direction', 'quarter of the heavens'.)

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.

justice1×penalty1×punishment1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativedikas1×δίκηdikais
object accusativedikan2×δίκηνdikain
direct address vocativedikardikair
of, belonging to genitivedikaudikaiu
to, for dativedikadikai

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
dikstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

dika 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

dikas“justice”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 28:4… hon diasōziranton ek tau thalassau tas dikas zōarō ouk easata.… he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

dikan“penalty”objectaccusative singular2×

2 Thessalonians 1:9hotinois dikan tinali olethron aiōnion apo prosōpeu tou …They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the …

Jude 1:7… sarkau heterau, prokeiolō deigmem pureu aiōnieu dikan hupecharōntais.… example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.