adikia · unrighteousness

What it means

adikia (ἀδικία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unrighteousness”.

Injustice, unrighteousness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is not right before God or others.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• unrighteousness ×21
• unrighteous ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×4
• John×1
• Acts×2
• Romans×7
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×2

• Luke 13:27

  And he will speak, saying to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of unrighteousness!’

• Luke 16:8

  And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of light in dealing with their own generation.

• Luke 16:9

  And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the eternal dwellings.

• Luke 18:6

  And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

• John 7:18

  Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

• Acts 1:18

  Now this man acquired a field with the wages of his unrighteousness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels poured out.

• Acts 8:23

  For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.”

• Romans 1:18

  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,

• Romans 1:29

  filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; they are gossips,

• Romans 2:8

  but to those who are of rivalry and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

• Romans 3:5

  But if our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak in a human way.)

• Romans 6:13

  and do not present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.

• Romans 9:14

  What then shall we say? There is no unrighteousness with God, is there? By no means!

• 1 Corinthians 13:6

  it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

• 2 Corinthians 12:13

  For what is there in which you were treated as inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this unrighteousness!

• 2 Thessalonians 2:10

  and with all deception of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12

  so that all may be judged who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness.

• 2 Timothy 2:19

  Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knew those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

• Hebrews 8:12

  For I will be merciful toward their unrighteous deeds, and their sins I will never remember anymore.

• James 3:6

  And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of existence, and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

• 2 Peter 2:13

  suffering wrong as the wage of their unrighteousness. They consider luxury in broad daylight a pleasure; they are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

• 2 Peter 2:15

  Forsaking the straight way, they have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, so as to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• 1 John 5:17

  All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

And 1 more times.