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."