Lexicon ekdikos: exacting penalty from, avenging Original Word: ἔκδικος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: ekdikos Phonetic Spelling: (ek'-dik-os) Short Definition: avenging, an avenger Definition: avenging, subst: an avenger (the word occurs frequently in the sense of a special advocate [champion] of a city). HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1558 ékdikos – someone executing a just judgment, carrying out what is right which can include administering punishment for the wicked. See 1557 (ekdikēsis). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and dikéDefinitionexacting penalty from, avenging NASB Translationavenger (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1558: ἔκδικοςἔκδικος, ἔκδικον ( δίκη right, justice, penalty); 1. "without law and justice (cf. Latinexlex), unjust": Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aelian n. an. 16, 5. 2. exacting penalty from (ἐκ) one; an avenger, punisher: Romans 13:4; περί τίνος, 1 Thessalonians 4:6; (Wis. 12:12; Sir. 30:6; 4 Macc. 15:26 (29); (Plutarch, de garrul. § 14, p. 509 f.); Herodian, 7, 4, 10 (5th edition, Bekker; others)).
Strong's avenger. From ek and dike; carrying justice out, i.e. A punisher -- a (re-)venger. see GREEK ek see GREEK dike |
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