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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.)
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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 BoxExo 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 - while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 -
Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
At the time when their foot shall slide:
For the day of their calamity is at hand,
And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - And she said unto him, My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as Jehovah hath taken vengeance for thee on thine enemies, even on the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - And Samson called unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 -
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,
And that bringeth down peoples under me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47 -
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,
And subdueth peoples under me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:10 -
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 -
Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God?
Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed
Be known among the nations in our sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:1 -
O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7 -
To execute vengeance upon the nations,
And punishments upon the peoples;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 - And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 - For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 - But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 - For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12 - But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - For that day is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15 - Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 - The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 - Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 - Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 - Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 -
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes (I, Jehovah, have spoken it);

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 - Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt also give no hire any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4 - Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 - That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:11 - and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 mine anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:17 - And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:14 - And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments upon No.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 - The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:15 - And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 - The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
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