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Lexicon :: Strong's G1557 - ekdikēsis

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ἐκδίκησις
Transliteration
ekdikēsis (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-dik'-ay-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:445,215

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis, ek-dik'-ay-sis; from G1556; vindication, retribution:—(a-, re-)venge(-ance), punishment.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G1557 in the following manner: vengeance (4x), avenge (with G4060) (3x), revenge (1x), punishment (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G1557 in the following manner: vengeance (4x), avenge (with G4060) (3x), revenge (1x), punishment (1x).

  1. a revenging, vengeance, punishment

    With respect to 2Cr 7:11: “…meting out of justice; doing justice to all parties. See on Luk 18:3; 21:22. The word has, however, the sense of requital (see on Rom 12:19; compare 2Th 1:8), and carries with it, etymologically, the sense of of vindication, as Luk 18:7-8.” (Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, 3:329)
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis, ek-dik'-ay-sis; from G1556; vindication, retribution:—(a-, re-)venge(-ance), punishment.
STRONGS G1557:
ἐκδίκησις, -εως, ἡ, (ἐκδικέω, which see), Sept. for נְקָמָה and נָקָם, פְּקֻדָּה, מִשְׁפָּט (Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:45) and שְׁפָטִים; a revenging; vengeance, punishment: Romans 12:19 and Hebrews 10:30 from Deuteronomy 32:35; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Luke 21:22; ποιεῖν τὴν ἐκδίκησίν τινος, to vindicate one from wrongs, accomplish the avenging of, Luke 18:7f; τινί, to avenge an injured person, Acts 7:24 (Judges 11:36); ἐκδίκησίς τινος, objective genitive, the punishment of one, 1 Peter 2:14; διδόναι ἐκδίκησίν τινι, to inflict punishment on, [render vengeance to] one, 2 Thessalonians 1:8; cf. [Sir. 12:6]; Ezekiel 25:14. (Polybius 3, 8, 10.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
32:35
Judges
11:36
Ezekiel
16:38; 23:45; 25:14
Luke
18:7; 21:22
Acts
7:24
Romans
12:19
2 Corinthians
7:11
2 Thessalonians
1:8
Hebrews
10:30
1 Peter
2:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1557 matches the Greek ἐκδίκησις (ekdikēsis),
which occurs 54 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - “Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 - while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 - Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[fn]
for the time when their foot shall slip;
for the day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:48

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 - the God who gave me vengeance
and brought down peoples under me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47 - the God who gave me vengeance
and subdued peoples under me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:10 - The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 - Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:1 - O LORD, God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, shine forth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 149:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7 - to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishments on the peoples,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 - He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 66:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 - “For behold, the LORD will come in fire,
and his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 - But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously,
who tests the heart and the mind,
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - For I hear many whispering.
Terror is on every side!
“Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
say all my close friends,
watching for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived;
then we can overcome him
and take our revenge on him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12 - O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous,
who sees the heart and the mind,[fn]
let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts,
a day of vengeance,
to avenge himself on his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated
and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Even her hired soldiers in her midst
are like fattened calves;
yes, they have turned and fled together;
they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
the time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15 - Raise a shout against her all around;
she has surrendered;
her bulwarks have fallen;
her walls are thrown down.
For this is the vengeance of the LORD:
take vengeance on her;
do to her as she has done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Kill all her bulls;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
the time of their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 - “Behold, I am against you, O proud one,
declares the Lord GOD of hosts,
for your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 - “Flee from the midst of Babylon;
let every one save his life!
Be not cut off in her punishment,
for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance,
the repayment he is rendering her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 - “Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain dry,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:60

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 - You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - You shall be[fn] a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the LORD; I have spoken—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4 - Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:11 - and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:14 - And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15 - “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:17 - I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:14 - I will make Pathros a desolation
and will set fire to Zoan
and will execute judgments on Thebes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:15 - And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance
on the nations that did not obey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - The best of them is like a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
now their confusion is at hand.
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