Lexical Summary ekdikos: exacting penalty from, avenging Original Word: ἔκδικοςTransliteration: ekdikos Phonetic Spelling: (ek'-dik-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: exacting penalty from, avenging Meaning: exacting penalty from, avenging Strong's Concordance avenger. From ek and dike; carrying justice out, i.e. A punisher -- a (re-)venger. see GREEK ek see GREEK dike Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1558: ἔκδικοςἔκδικος, ἔκδικον (δίκη right, justice, penalty); 1. "without law and justice (cf. Latinexlex), unjust": Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aelian n. an. 16, 5. 2. exacting penalty from (ἐκ) one; an avenger, punisher: Romans 13:4; περί τίνος, 1 Thessalonians 4:6; (Wis. 12:12; Sir. 30:6; 4 Macc. 15:26 (29); (Plutarch, de garrul. § 14, p. 509 f.); Herodian, 7, 4, 10 (5th edition, Bekker; others)). |
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