Greek noun (feminine) · G1349
δίκη
dikedee'-kay
custom; right; a judicial hearing; Personified (cf. Lat. Justitia)
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: díkē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1349is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1349
right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)
The King James renders it: judgment, punish, vengeance.
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
dike is rendered "custom; right; a judicial hearing; Personified (cf. Lat. Justitia)". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "custom".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Acts 28:4δίκη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word four senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: custom, and right, and a judicial hearing, and Personified (cf. Lat. Justitia).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| custom | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another… |
| right | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| a judicial hearinghence its result, the execution of a sentence, punishment | Tagged as
| Where2 Thessalonians 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction… |
| Personified (cf. Lat. Justitia)justice, vengeance | Tagged as
| WhereActs 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another… |
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- δίκην2
- δίκη1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Acts
one use
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- δίκηdikenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Justice
2 Thessalonians
one use
They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
- δίκηνdikennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: penalty
Jude
one use
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- δίκηνdikennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: penalty
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.