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Strong's #1349: dike (pronounced dee'-kay)

probably from 1166; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):--judgment, punish, vengeance.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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dikē

1) custom, usage

2) right, just

3) a suit at law

4) a judicial hearing, judicial decision, especially sentence of condemnation

5) execution of a sentence, punishment

5a) to suffer punishment

6) the goddess Justice, avenging justice

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: probably from G1166

Citing in TDNT: 2:178, 168




Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Acts 25:15: "Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him."
Acts 28:4: "though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live."
2 Thessalonians 1:9: "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the"
Jude 1:7: "flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."









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