ἀδικέω,
-ῶ; [future
ἀδικήσω]; 1 aorist
ἠδίκησα; passive, [present
ἀδικοῦμαι]; 1 aor,
ἠδικήθην; literally
to be ἄδικος.
1. absolutely;
a. to act unjustly or
wickedly, to sin:
Revelation 22:11;
Colossians 3:25.
b. to be a criminal, to have violated the laws in some way:
Acts 25:11 (often so in Greek writings [cf. Winers Grammar, § 40, 2 c.]).
c. to do wrong: 1 Corinthians 6:8;
2 Corinthians 7:12.
d. to do hurt: Revelation 9:19.
2. transitively;
a. τί,
to do some wrong, sin in some respect:
Colossians 3:25 (
ὁ ἠδίκησε 'the wrong which he hath done').
b. τινά,
to wrong some one, act wickedly toward him: Acts 7:26f (by blows);
Matthew 20:13 (by fraud);
2 Corinthians 7:2; passive
ἀδικεῖσθαι to be wronged,
2 Corinthians 7:12;
Acts 7:24; middle
ἀδικοῦμαι to suffer oneself to be wronged, take wrong [Winers Grammar, § 38, 3; cf.
Riddell, Platonic Idioms, § 87f]:
1 Corinthians 6:7;
τινὰ οὐδέν [Buttmann, § 131, 10: Winer's Grammar, 227 (213)],
Acts 25:10;
Galatians 4:12;
τινά τι,
Philemon 1:18; [
ἀδικούμενοι μισθὸν ἀδικίας (
R. V. suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing),
2 Peter 2:13 WH Tr marginal reading].
c. τινά,
to hurt, damage, harm (in this sense by Greeks of every period):
Luke 10:19;
Revelation 6:6;
Revelation 7:2;
Revelation 9:4,
10;
Revelation 11:5; passive
οὐ μὴ ἀδικηθῇ ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου shall suffer no violence from death,
Revelation 2:11.
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