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Lexicon :: Strong's G1556 - ekdikeō

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ἐκδικέω
Transliteration
ekdikeō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-dik-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:442,215

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκδικέω ekdikéō, ek-dik-eh'-o; from G1558; to vindicate, retaliate, punish:—a (re-)venge.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G1556 in the following manner: avenge (5x), revenge (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G1556 in the following manner: avenge (5x), revenge (1x).

  1. to vindicate one's right, do one justice

    1. to protect, defend, one person from another

  2. to avenge a thing

    1. to punish a person for a thing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκδικέω ekdikéō, ek-dik-eh'-o; from G1558; to vindicate, retaliate, punish:—a (re-)venge.
STRONGS G1556:
ἐκδικέω, -ῶ; future ἐκδικήσω; 1 aorist ἐξεδίκησα; (ἔκδικος, which see); Sept. for נָקַם, פָּקַד, שָׁפַט;
a. τινά, to vindicate one's right, do one justice, [A. V. avenge]: Luke 18:5 (1 Macc. 6:22); τινὰ ἀπό τινος, to protect, defend, one person from another, Luke 18:3; ἑαυτόν, to avenge oneself, Romans 12:19.
b. τί, to avenge a thing (i. e. to punish a person for a thing): τὴν παρακοήν, 2 Corinthians 10:6; τὸ αἷμά τινος ἀπό or ἔκ τινος, to demand in punishment the blood of one from another, i. e. to exact of the murderer the penalty of his crime, [A. V. avenge one's blood on or at the hand of]: Revelation 6:10; Revelation 19:2; see ἐκ, I. 7. (In Greek authors from [Apollodorus], Diodorus down.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
18:3; 18:5
Romans
12:19
2 Corinthians
10:6
Revelation
6:10; 19:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1556 matches the Greek ἐκδικέω (ekdikeō),
which occurs 67 times in 61 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:15–Hos 12:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that slays Cain shall [fn]suffer seven-fold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 - Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain's behalf, on Lamech's it shall be seventy times seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:4 - And Pharao will not hearken to you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt; and will bring out my people the children of Israel with my power out of the land of Egypt with great vengeance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - But if the servant continue to live a day or two, let not the master be punished; for he is his money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:25 - And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - Avenge the [fn]wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and [fn]afterwards thou shalt be added to thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:19 - [fn] And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - Rejoice, ye heavens, with him, and let all the angels of God worship him; [fn] rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; for he will avenge the blood of his sons, and he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, and will reward them that hate him; and the Lord shall purge the land of his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - And Gedeon the son of Joas said to all the men who rose up against him, Do ye now plead for Baal, or will ye save him? whoever will plead for him, let him be slain this morning: if he be a god let him plead for himself, because one has thrown down his altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Sampson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my Lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:13 - And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24 - And Saul committed a great trespass of ignorance in that day, and he lays a curse on the people, saying, Cursed is the man who shall eat bread before the evening; so I will avenge myself on my enemy: and none of the people tasted bread, [fn]though all the land was dining.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Thus said the Lord of hosts, Now will I take vengeance for what Amalec did to Israel, when he met him in the way as he came up out of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - And Saul said, Thus shall ye speak to David, The king wants no gift but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to cast him into the hands of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:12 - (LXX 24:13) The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord requite thee on thyself: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:7 - And thou shalt utterly destroy the house of Achaab thy master from before me, and shalt avenge the [fn]blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the Lord, at the hand of Jezabel,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - And it came to pass, when Jeu was taking vengeance on the house of Achaab, that he found the princes of Juda and the brethren of Ochozias ministering to Ochozias, and he slew them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 99:8 - (LXX 98:8) O Lord our God, thou heardest them; O God, thou becamest propitious to them, though thou didst take vengeance on all their devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:16 - I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:9 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:29 - Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:9 - (LXX 9:8) Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:3 - And I will punish them with four kinds of death, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2 - Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that tend my people; Ye have scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye have not visited them: behold, I will take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:34 - As for the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - (LXX 26:10) And that day shall be to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord has a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:25 - (LXX 26:25) Behold, I will avenge Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15 - (LXX 27:15) and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:18 - (LXX 27:18) Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:21 - (LXX 27:21) on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - (LXX 28:36) Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - (LXX 28:44) And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:52

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:52 - (LXX 28:52) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven images: and slain men shall fall in all her land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:3 - (LXX 7:7) Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgment upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:27 - The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgments will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:12 - But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4 - Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:24 - And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12 - Thus saith the Lord; Because of what the Idumeans have done in taking vengeance on the house of Juda, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompence;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:13 - (LXX 2:15) And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:9 - And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:13 - For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:9 - They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:2 - (LXX 12:3) And the Lord has a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.

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