G1343 – dikaiosune – δικαιοσύνη – a justice, justness, righteousness
- Strong’s ID:
- G1343
- Greek Word:
- δικαιοσύνη
- Transliteration:
- dikaiosune
- Pronunciation:
- dik-ah-yos-oo’-nay
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Etymology:
- from G1342
- Usage Count:
- 92
- Search:
- Find “dikaiosune” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
a justice, justness, righteousness
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:—righteousness.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
1a) the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
1b) integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
2) in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.