Greek adjective · G1558
ἔκδικος
ekdikosek'-dik-os
without law, unjust; exacting penalty from
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ékdikos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1558is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1558
carrying justice out, i.e. a punisher
The King James renders it: a (re-)venger.
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
ekdikos is rendered "without law, unjust; exacting penalty from". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "without law, unjust".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
The first use
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
Romans 13:4ἔκδικος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Romans.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: without law, unjust, and exacting penalty from.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| without law, unjust | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereRomans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid… |
| exacting penalty fromas subst., an avenger | Tagged as
| WhereRomans 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid… |
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 |
| ἐκδικέω | ekdikeo | to avenge | Uses6 |
| ἐκδίδωμι | ekdidomi | to lease | Uses4 |
| ἐκδιηγέομαι | ekdiegeomai | to tell in detail | Uses2 |
| ἐκδιώκω | ekdioko | to persecute | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἔκδικος2
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
Romans
one use
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
- ἔκδικοςekdikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an avenger
1 Thessalonians
one use
and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
- ἔκδικοςekdikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: avenging
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.