Greek verb · G1556
ἐκδικέω
ekdikeoek-dik-eh'-o
to vindicate; to avenge
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ekdikéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1556is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1556
to vindicate, retaliate, punish
The King James renders it: a (re-)venge.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ekdikeo is rendered "to vindicate; to avenge". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to vindicate".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 18:3And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
Luke 18:3ἐκδίκησόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to vindicate, and to avenge.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to vindicatewith accusative of person(s), Luk.18:3, 5. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 18:3And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him… |
| to avenge | Tagged as
| WhereRomans 12:19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκδίκησις | ekdikesis | vengeance | Uses9 |
| ἐκδίδωμι | ekdidomi | to lease | Uses4 |
| ἔκδικος | ekdikos | avenging | Uses2 |
| ἐκδιηγέομαι | ekdiegeomai | to tell in detail | Uses2 |
| ἐκδιώκω | ekdioko | to persecute | Uses1 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐκδικεῖς1
- ἐκδικῆσαι1
- ἐκδίκησόν1
- ἐκδικήσω1
- ἐκδικοῦντες1
- ἐξεδίκησεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular1V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PAP-NPM
Luke
two uses
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
- ἐκδίκησόνekdikesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do avenge
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
- ἐκδικήσωekdikesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will avenge
Romans
one use
Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
- ἐκδικοῦντεςekdikountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: avenging
2 Corinthians
one use
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.
- ἐκδικῆσαιekdikesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to avenge
Revelation
two uses
And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
- ἐκδικεῖςekdikeisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you avenge
For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand.”
- ἐξεδίκησενexedikesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has avenged
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.