1349. diké
Strong's Concordance
diké: right (as self-evident), justice (the principle, a decision or its execution)
Original Word: δίκη, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: diké
Phonetic Spelling: (dee'-kay)
Short Definition: justice, judicial hearing, punishment
Definition: (a) (originally: custom, usage) right, justice, (b) process of law, judicial hearing, (c) execution of sentence, punishment, penalty, (d) justice, vengeance.
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Cognate: 1349 díkē – properly, right, especially a judicial verdict which declares someone approved or disapproved; a judgment (just finding) that regards someone (something) as "guilty" or "innocent." See 1343 (dikaiosynē).

[1349 (díkē) is used in classical Greek for a legal decision – a recompense (based on justice). In the LXX, dikē is used nine times to translate , the Hebrew term for "law-suit."]

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1349: δίκη

δίκη, δίκης, (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)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
penalty, punishment

Probably from deiknuo; right (as self-evident), i.e. Justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution) -- judgment, punish, vengeance.

see GREEK deiknuo

Forms and Transliterations
δίκας δικη δίκη δικην δίκην δίκης dike dikē díke díkē diken dikēn díken díkēn
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Strong's Greek 1349
3 Occurrences


δίκη — 1 Occ.
δίκην — 2 Occ.

Acts 28:4 N-NFS
GRK: θαλάσσης ἡ δίκη ζῇν οὐκ
NAS: from the sea, justice has not allowed
KJV: the sea, yet vengeance suffereth
INT: sea Justice to live not

2 Thessalonians 1:9 N-AFS
GRK: οἵτινες δίκην τίσουσιν ὄλεθρον
NAS: will pay the penalty of eternal
KJV: Who shall be punished with everlasting
INT: who [the] penalty will suffer destruction

Jude 1:7 N-AFS
GRK: πυρὸς αἰωνίου δίκην ὑπέχουσαι
NAS: in undergoing the punishment of eternal
KJV: suffering the vengeance of eternal
INT: of fire eternal [the] penalty undergoing

3 Occurrences

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