Gloss
punishment, with a focus that the penalty is justly deserved and right; this can also refer to a pagan Greek goddess, Justice (Ac 28:4), who would seek out the guilty and punish the wrongdoer
Forms of the word
Dictionary
δίκη, ης, ἡ
Greek transliteration
dikē
Simplified transliteration
dike
Numbers
Strong's number
1349
GK Number
1472
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
3
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1b
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for δίκη
| Acts 28:4 | When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “Certainly this man is a murderer, and though he has escaped from the sea, justice (dikē | δίκη | nom sg fem) has not allowed him to live.” |
| 2 Thessalonians 1:9 | They will experience the punishment (dikēn | δίκην | acc sg fem) of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power |
| Jude 1:7 | Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, which indulged in sexual immorality in the same way as the angels and pursued unnatural desire, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment (dikēn | δίκην | acc sg fem) of eternal fire. |
