adikeō · wrong, harm

What it means

adikeō (ἀδικέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wrong, harm”.

Do wrong, act unjustly; wrong someone, do them harm.

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. To mistreat someone unfairly.
2. To do harm to someone or something, injure or spoil it.

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

How it is translated

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

• wrong ×10
• harm ×9
• wronging ×2
• I am a wrongdoer ×1
• be harmed ×1
• be wronged ×1
• being wronged ×1
• he has wronged ×1
• one who was wronged ×1
• we wronged ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×1
• Acts×5
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Galatians×1
• Colossians×2
• Philemon×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×11

• Matthew 20:13

  But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am not wronging you. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

• Luke 10:19

  Look, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will ever harm you.

• Acts 7:24

  And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended him and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

• Acts 7:26

  And on the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting and was trying to bring them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?’

• Acts 7:27

  But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

• Acts 25:10

  And Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you also know very well.

• Acts 25:11

  If then I am a wrongdoer and have done anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is nothing in the things of which these men accuse me, no one can surrender me to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

• 1 Corinthians 6:7

  Already, then, it is altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

• 1 Corinthians 6:8

  But you wrong and defraud, and that your brothers.

• 2 Corinthians 7:2

  Make room for us; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one.

• 2 Corinthians 7:12

  So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did wrong nor for the sake of the one who was wronged but so that your earnestness for us might be made manifest to you before God.

• Galatians 4:12

  Become as I am, because I also became as you are, brothers, I beg you. You did me no wrong;

• Colossians 3:25

  For the one who does wrong will receive back what he did wrong, and there is no partiality.

• Philemon 1:18

  And if he has wronged you in anything or owes you anything, charge this to me.

• 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.

• Revelation 2:11

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.

• Revelation 6:6

  And I heard something like a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

• Revelation 7:2

  And I saw another angel coming up from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been granted to harm the earth and the sea,

• Revelation 7:3

  saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”

• Revelation 9:4

  And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing or any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

• Revelation 9:10

  And they have tails like scorpions’ and stingers, and in their tails is their authority to harm people for five months.

• Revelation 9:19

  For the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm.

• Revelation 11:5

  And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.

• Revelation 22:11

  Let the one who does wrong still do wrong, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do righteousness, and the holy still be sanctified.”

And 4 more times.