δίκη
dikē · justice, punishment
Greek word · Strong’s number G1349 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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dikē (δίκη) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “justice, punishment”.
Justice; the penalty that justice imposes, punishment; also Justice personified as a goddess.
How to say it
di·kē
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
- The payment a sentence imposes for wrong.
- The goddess who, the pagans believed, pursued the guilty.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Justice ×1
- penalty ×1
- punishment ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 28:4
And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another, “This man is surely a murderer; though he was brought safely out of the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
- Jude 1:7
just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which in the same way as these indulged in sexual immorality and went after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.