Díkē — G1349

Definition

feminine noun

right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)

1. custom, usage
2. right, justice
3. a suit at law
4. a judicial hearing, judicial decision, especially a sentence of condemnation
5. execution of the sentence, punishment
6. the goddess Justice, avenging justice

Usually translated as

vengeance, judgment, punish

Origin

probably from G1166

• deiknýō (G1166)

Occurrences

Díkē occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (2), 2 Thessalonians (1), Jude (1)

• Acts 25:15 — About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment (δίκην) against him.
• Acts 28:4 — And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance (δίκη) suffereth not to live.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:9 — Who shall be punished (δίκην) with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• Jude 1:7 — Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance (δίκην) of eternal fire.