ἀδίκημα
adíkēma · G92 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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unrighteous act, crime
(Derivative of ἀδικέω ‘to act unjustly,’) What is done in an unrighteous or unjust manner
ExamplesActs 18:14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or vicious, unscrupulous act, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;
Acts 24:20 “Or else have these men themselves declare what violation they discovered when I stood before the Council,
Revelation 18:5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
- τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
- μνημονεύωto remember, to recall, to think about again 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 3 words
- פֶּשַׁע peshaʻ · H6588 · rebellion, offense, crime
- Greek ἀδίκημα denotes a specific wrongful act or injustice committed, while Hebrew פֶּשַׁע emphasizes the rebellious transgression or willful breach against authority (divine or human); both terms refer to concrete acts of wrongdoing, with פֶּשַׁע carrying stronger connotations of deliberate defiance.
- עֹשֶׁק ʻôsheq · H6233 · extortion, abuse, oppression
- עֹשֶׁק (ʻôsheq, H6233) denotes oppressive wrongdoing through extortion or violent injustice, emphasizing the act's cruel or coercive nature, while ἀδίκημα (adíkēma, G92) is the general Greek term for any wrongful act or injustice without inherent specification of method.
- רַע raʻ · H7451 · bad, evil, wicked
- Greek ἀδίκημα denotes specifically a wrongful act or injustice as a discrete committed deed, while Hebrew רַע covers a broader semantic range including general evil, calamity, and adversity not necessarily tied to human wrongdoing; the equivalence holds where רַע refers to morally culpable wrongful actions.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Unrighteous act, crime88.23
- This noun denotes a wrongful deed serious enough to warrant legal charge, as in Acts 24:20's challenge to declare what violation was discovered when Paul stood before the Council.
Word family 21 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (τος, τό (ἀδικέω) (from Herodotus on), a misdeed (τό ἄδικον... ὅταν πραχθῇ, ἀδίκημα…
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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