δίκαιος dikaios

Greek word for “just” · Strong’s G1342 · used 79 times in 74 verses

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Meaning

δίκαιος, -α, -ον; (δίκη);

How it is translated

Glosses given for dikaios in context, with how often each is used:

• righteous 48
• righteous man 7
• right 6
• righteous one 6
• just 4
• righteous ones 2
• righteous are 2
• righteous men 1
• right? 1
• righteous it is 1
• upright 1

Where it is used

Also in 8 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 13 (3), Matthew 23 (3), Matthew 25 (2), Luke 1 (2), Luke 23 (2), Romans 3 (2), Romans 5 (2), 2 Thessalonians 1 (2), James 5 (2), 1 Peter 3 (2)

Forms

• δίκαιον 17
• δίκαιος 16
• δίκαιοι 9
• δικαίους 6
• δικαίου 6
• δικαίων 6
• δίκαιός 4
• δίκαιαι 3
• δικαίῳ 2
• δικαία 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with dikaios more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἁμαρτωλός hamartōlos “sinful” 7
• ἀκούω akouō “to hear” 10
• δικαιοσύνη dikaiosunē “righteousness” 6
• κρίνω krinō “to judge” 6
• κρίσις krisis “judgment” 5
• καθώς kathōs “as/just as” 6
• ἅγιος hagios “holy” 6
• πατήρ patēr “father” 7
• ὑπέρ huper “above/for” 5
• ἄδικος adikos “unjust” 3
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 5
• ἀνήρ anēr “man” 5

Key verses

The verses using dikaios that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 25:46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
• Luke 1:6 — And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Acts 7:52 — Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now…
• Philippians 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are…
• 2 Timothy 4:8 — Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all…
• Hebrews 10:38 — Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• Hebrews 12:23 — To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
• James 5:16 — Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
• 1 Peter 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the…
• 1 John 1:9 — If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 1 John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
• Revelation 15:3 — And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.