Strong's #1344: dikaioo (pronounced dik-ah-yo'-o)

from 1342; to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent:--free, justify(-ier), be righteous.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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dikaioō

1) to render righteous or such he ought to be

2) to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered

3) to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1342

Citing in TDNT: 2:211, 168

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Matthew 11:19: "sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children."
Matthew 12:37: "by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words"
Luke 7:29: "him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism"
Luke 7:35: "But wisdom is justified of all her children."
Luke 10:29: "But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus,"
Luke 16:15: "unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but"
Luke 18:14: "to his house justified rather than the other: for every one"
Acts 13:39: "him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could"
Acts 13:39: "from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."
Romans 2:13: "doers of the law shall be justified."
Romans 3:4: "a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy"
Romans 3:20: "of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for"
Romans 3:24: " Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that"
Romans 3:26: "might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus."
Romans 3:28: "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."
Romans 3:30: "it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and"
Romans 4:2: "For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;"
Romans 4:5: "but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith"
Romans 5:1: "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God"
Romans 5:9: "more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved"
Romans 6:7: "For he that is dead is freed from sin."
Romans 8:30: "he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them"
Romans 8:30: "justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."
Romans 8:33: "shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."
1 Corinthians 4:4: "yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me"
1 Corinthians 6:11: "but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the"
Galatians 2:16: "that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but"
Galatians 2:16: "Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and"
Galatians 2:16: "of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Galatians 2:17: "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also"
Galatians 3:8: "foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,"
Galatians 3:11: "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God,"
Galatians 3:24: "to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."
Galatians 5:4: "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace."
1 Timothy 3:16: "was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,"
Titus 3:7: "That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope"
James 2:21: "Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac"
James 2:24: "that by works a man is justified, and not by faith"
James 2:25: "Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the"
Revelation 22:11: "still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy"