adikos · unjust, unrighteous

What it means

adikos (ἄδικος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unjust, unrighteous”.

Wicked.

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. Someone who does not act justly.

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

How it is translated

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

• unrighteous ×8
• unjust ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×4
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 5:45

  so that you may become sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

• Luke 16:10

  The one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is unjust in very little is also unjust in much.

• Luke 16:11

  If then you have not been faithful with the unjust wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

• Luke 18:11

  The Pharisee, standing, was praying these things to himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: robbers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Acts 24:15

  having a hope in God, which these men themselves also await, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

• 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.)

• 1 Corinthians 6:1

  Does anyone of you, having a dispute against another, dare to go to court before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

• 1 Corinthians 6:9

  Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor men who lie with males,

• Hebrews 6:10

  For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love that you showed toward his name in having served the saints and still serving them.

• 1 Peter 3:18

  Because the Messiah also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God, put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

• 2 Peter 2:9

  the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

And 1 more times.