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:
Philippians 1:7: "Even as it is meet for me to think this of you"
Philippians 4:8: "whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,"
Colossians 4:1: "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that"
2 Thessalonians 1:5: "Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the"
2 Thessalonians 1:6: "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;"
1 Timothy 1:9: "the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,"
2 Timothy 4:8: "the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at"
Titus 1:8: "a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;"
Hebrews 10:38: "Now the just shall live by faith: but if"
Hebrews 11:4: "which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his"
Hebrews 12:23: "of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,"
James 5:6: "Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you."
James 5:16: "that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."
1 Peter 3:12: "eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto"
1 Peter 3:18: "suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring"
1 Peter 4:18: "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the"
2 Peter 1:13: "Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this"
2 Peter 2:7: "And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation"
2 Peter 2:8: "(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,"
2 Peter 2:8: "and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day"
1 John 1:9: "he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,"
1 John 2:1: "Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
1 John 2:29: "ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth"
1 John 3:7: "he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous."
1 John 3:7: "even as he is righteous."
1 John 3:12: "evil, and his brother's righteous."
Revelation 15:3: "Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways,"
Revelation 16:5: "waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast,"
Revelation 16:7: "Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments."
Revelation 19:2: "For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged"
Revelation 22:11: "let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy,"
