Strong's #1342: dikaios (pronounced dik'-ah-yos)
from 1349; equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively):--just, meet, right(-eous).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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dikaios
1) righteous, observing divine laws
1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
1a1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
1a3a) only Christ truly
1a4) approved of or acceptable of God
1b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from G1349
Citing in TDNT: 2:182, 168
Usage:
This word is used 81 times:
Matthew 1:19: "her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example,"
Matthew 5:45: "and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
Matthew 9:13: "I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Matthew 10:41: "reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive"
Matthew 10:41: "a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward."
Matthew 10:41: "the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward."
Matthew 13:17: "many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see,"
Matthew 13:43: "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in"
Matthew 13:49: "from among the just,"
Matthew 20:4: "vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you."
Matthew 20:7: "and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive."
Matthew 23:28: "also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within"
Matthew 23:29: "the sepulchers of the righteous,"
Matthew 23:35: "you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the"
Matthew 23:35: "from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood"
Matthew 25:37: "Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when"
Matthew 25:46: "punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."
Matthew 27:19: "saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things"
Matthew 27:24: "the blood of this just person: see ye"
Mark 2:17: "they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to"
Mark 6:20: "John, knowing that he was a just man and a holy, and"
Luke 1:6: "And they were both righteous before God, walking in"
Luke 1:17: "the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Luke 2:25: "and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation"
Luke 5:32: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Luke 12:57: "yourselves judge ye not what is right?"
Luke 14:14: "at the resurrection of the just."
Luke 15:7: "more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no"
Luke 18:9: "themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:"
Luke 20:20: "spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words,"
Luke 23:47: "Certainly this was a righteous man."
Luke 23:50: "and he was a good man, and a just:"
John 5:30: "my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own"
John 7:24: "to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
John 17:25: " O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee:"
Acts 3:14: "the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer"
Acts 4:19: "them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you"
Acts 7:52: "the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now"
Acts 10:22: "said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God,"
Acts 22:14: "will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of"
Acts 24:15: "a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust."
Romans 1:17: "faith: as it is written. The just shall live by"
Romans 2:13: "hearers of the law are just before God, but the"
Romans 3:10: "it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"
Romans 3:26: "righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth"
Romans 5:7: "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure"
Romans 5:19: "obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
Romans 7:12: "commandment holy, and just, and good."
Galatians 3:11: "it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith."
Ephesians 6:1: "for this is right."
