1556. ekdikeó
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ekdikeó: to vindicate, to avenge
Original Word: ἐκδικέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekdikeó
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-dik-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I give justice over, defend, avenge, vindicate
Definition: I give justice over, defend, avenge, vindicate.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 1556 ekdikéō – to dispense justice, carrying a judgment completely through, i.e. with all that is appropriate to it. See 1557 (ekdikēsis).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ekdikos
Definition
to vindicate, to avenge
NASB Translation
avenged (1), avenging (1), give...legal protection (2), legal protection (2), punish (1), take...revenge (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 1556: ἐκδικέω

ἐκδικέω, ἐκδικῶ; future ἐκδικήσω; 1 aorist ἐξεδίκησα; (ἔκδικος, which see); the Sept. for נָקַם, פָּקַד, שָׁפַט;

a. τινα, to vindicate one's right, do one justice (A. V. avenge): Luke 18 (1 Macc. 6:22); τινα ἀπό τίνος, to protect, defend, one person from another, Luke 18:3; ἑαυτόν, to avenge oneself, Romans 12:19.

b. τί, to avenge a thing (i. e. to punish a person for a thing): τήν παρακοήν, 2 Corinthians 10:6; τό haima] τίνος ἀπό or ἐκ τίνος, to demand in punishment the blood of one from another, i. e. to exact of the murderer the penalty of his crime (A. V. avenge one's blood on or at the hand of): Revelation 6:10; Revelation 19:2; see ἐκ, I. 7. (In Greek authors from (Apollod.), Diodorus down.)



Strong's
avenge.

From ekdikos; to vindicate, retaliate, punish -- a (re-)venge.

see GREEK ekdikos

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