δίκη
díkē
“right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)”
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Definition
Strong’s Definition
right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
right, justice; in NT judicial punishment, vengeance, 2 Thess. 1:9; Jude 7; sentence of punishment, judgment, Acts 25:15; personified, the goddess of justice or vengeance, Nemesis, Paena, Acts 28:4
Translated in KJV as
judgmentpunishvengeance
Etymology
probably from G1166 (δεικνύω);
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“About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.”