- Original: δίκη
- Transliteration: Dike
- Phonetic: dee'-kay
- Definition:
1. custom, usage
2. right, just
3. a suit at law
4. a judicial hearing, judicial decision, esp. sentence of condemnation
5. execution of a sentence, punishment
a. to suffer punishment
6. the Goddess justice, avenging justice
- Origin: probably from
G1166
- TDNT entry: 04:58,2
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine
- Strong's: Probably from
G1166 ; right (as self evident) that is justice (the principle a decision or its execution): - judgment punish vengeance.
Total KJV Occurrences: 4
• judgment, 1
Act 25:15
• punished, 1
2 Thessalonians 1:9
• vengeance, 2
Act 28:4;
Jude 1:7