Lexical Summary dikē: right (as self-evident), justice (the principle, a decision or its execution) Original Word: δίκηTransliteration: dikē Phonetic Spelling: (dee'-kay) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: right (as self-evident), justice (the principle, a decision or its execution) Meaning: right (as self-evident), justice (the principle, a decision or its execution) Strong's Concordance penalty, punishmentProbably from deiknuo; right (as self-evident), i.e. Justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution) -- judgment, punish, vengeance. see GREEK deiknuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1349: δίκηδίκη, δίκης, ἡ (allied with δεικηυμι, Curtius, § 14), from Homer down; 1. custom, usage, (cf. Schmidt, chapter 18, 4 cf. 3). 2. right, justice. 3. a suit at law. 4. a judicial hearing, judicial decision, especially a sentence of condemnation; so in Acts 25:15 (L T Tr WH καταδίκην). 5. execution of the sentence, punishment, (Wis. 18:11; 2 Macc. 8:11): δίκην ὑπέχειν, Jude 1:7; δίκην (Sophocles El. 298; Aj. 113; Euripides, Or. 7), to suffer punishment, 2 Thessalonians 1:9. 6. the goddess Justice, avenging justice: Acts 28:4, as in Greek writings often from Hesiod theog. 902 on; (of the avenging justice of God, personified, Wis. 1:8, etc.; cf. Grimm at the passage and commentary on 4 Macc., p. 318, (he cites 4 Macc. 4:13, 21; 8:13, 21; 9:9; 11:3; 12:12; 18:22; Philo adv. Flacc. § 18; Eusebius, h. e. 2, 6, 8)). |
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