ἔκδικος
ékdikos · G1558 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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punisher
(Derivative of ἐκδικέω ‘to punish,’) A person who punishes
ExamplesRomans 13:4 for it is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a servant of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κύριοςLord 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- נָקַם nâqam · H5358 · to avenge, to take vengeance
- Hebrew participial form used substantively for 'avenger,' a direct functional equivalent to ἔκδικος as 'punisher' or 'one who executes justice.' Both describe the agent of retributive justice.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Punisher38.9
- Used in Romans 13:4 of the governing authority as an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil, and in 1 Thessalonians 4:6, where the Lord is described as an avenger concerning sins of impurity.
Word family 21 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἔκδικον (δίκη right, justice, penalty); 1. "without law and justice (cf. Latinexlex),…
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: Rom 13:4; περί τίνος, 1 Thess 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)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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