Lexicon :: Strong's G1343 - dikaiosynē
δικαιοσύνη
92x in 4 unique form(s) TR
92x in 5 unique form(s) LXX
259x in 8 unique form(s)
Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry
TDNT Reference: 2:192,168
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in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
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the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
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integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
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in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due
1. in the broad sense, the state of him who is such as he ought to be, righteousness (German Rechtbeschaffenheit); the condition acceptable to God (German Gottwohlgefälligkeit);
a. universally: λόγος τῆς δικαιοσύνης (like λόγος τῆς καταλλαγῆς, λ. τοῦ σταυροῦ), the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain to a state approved of God, Hebrews 5:13; βασιλεὺς δικαιοσύνης, the king who himself has the approbation of God, and who renders his subjects acceptable to God, Hebrews 7:2; cf. Bleek at the passage.
b. integrity, virtue, purity of life, uprightness, correctness in thinking, feeling, and acting: Matthew 3:15; Matthew 5:6, 10, 20; Matthew 6:1
c. in the writings of Paul ἡ δικαιοσύνη has a peculiar meaning, opposed to the views of the Jews and Judaizing Christians. To understand this meaning, the following facts especially must be kept in view: the Jews as a people, and very many who had become converts from among them to Christianity, supposed that they secured the favor of God by works conformed to the requirements of the Mosaic law, as though by way of merit; and that they would thus attain to eternal salvation. But this law demands perfect obedience to all its precepts, and threatens condemnation to those who do not render such obedience (Galatians 3:10, 12). Obedience of this kind no one has rendered (Romans 3:10), neither Jews nor Gentiles (Romans 1:24-2:1) — for with the latter the natural law of right written on their souls takes the place of the Mosaic law (Romans 2:14f). On this account Paul proclaims the love of God, in that by giving up Christ, his Son, to die as an expiatory sacrifice for the sins of men he has attested his grace and good-will to mankind, so that they can hope for salvation as if they had not sinned. But the way to obtain this hope, he teaches, is only through faith (see πίστις [especially 1 b. and d.]), by which a man appropriates that grace of God revealed and pledged in Christ; and this faith is reckoned by God to the man as δικαιοσύνη; that is to say, δ. denotes the state acceptable to God which becomes a sinner's possession through that faith by which he embraces the grace of God offered him in the expiatory death of Jesus Christ (see δικαιόω, 3 b.). In this sense ἡ δικαιοσύνη is used without an adjunct in Romans 4:5f, 11; Romans 5:17, 21; Romans 9:30; Romans 14:17 (? [see b.]); 1 Corinthians 1:30; Galatians 5:5; δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ, ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνη, the righteousness which God ascribes, what God declares to be righteousness [Winer's Grammar, 186 (175)], Romans 1:17; Romans 3:21; Romans 10:3; by a pregnant use, equivalent to that divine arrangement by which God leads men to a state acceptable to him, Romans 10:4; as abstract for concrete, equivalent to those whom God accounts righteous, 2 Corinthians 5:21; δικ. θεοῦ διὰ πίστεως, Romans 3:22; ἡ δικ. τῆς πίστεως, which is acquired by faith, or seen in faith, Romans 4:11, 13; ἡ ἐκ θεοῦ δικαιοσ. which comes from God,
2. in a closer sense, justice, or the virtue which gives each one his due; it is said to belong to God and Christ, as bestowing ἰσότιμον πίστιν upon all Christians impartially, 2 Peter 1:1; of judicial justice, Romans 9:28 R G Tr marginal reading in brackets; κρίνειν ἐν δικαιοσύνη, Acts 17:31; Revelation 19:11. [See references under the word δικαιόω at the end.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
- Daniel
- 4:24
- Matthew
- 3:15; 3:15; 5:6; 5:10; 5:20; 6:1; 6:33; 21:32
- Luke
- 1:75
- John
- 16:8; 16:10
- Acts
- 10:35; 13:10; 17:31; 24:25
- Romans
- 1:17; 1:24; 1:25; 1:26; 1:27; 1:28; 1:29; 1:30; 1:31; 1:32; 2:1; 2:14; 3:5; 3:10; 3:21; 3:22; 3:25; 4:3; 4:5; 4:6; 4:9; 4:11; 4:11; 4:13; 4:22; 5:17; 5:21; 6; 6:13; 6:16; 8:10; 9:28; 9:30; 9:30; 10:3; 10:3; 10:4; 10:4; 10:5; 10:6; 10:10; 14:17; 14:17
- 1 Corinthians
- 1:30; 1:30
- 2 Corinthians
- 3:9; 5:21; 6:7; 6:14; 9:9; 11:15
- Galatians
- 2:21; 3:6; 3:10; 3:12; 3:21; 5:5
- Ephesians
- 4:24; 5:9; 6:14
- Philippians
- 1:11; 3:6; 3:9; 3:9; 3:9
- 1 Timothy
- 6:11
- 2 Timothy
- 2:22; 3:16; 4:8
- Titus
- 3:5
- Hebrews
- 1:9; 5:13; 7:2; 11:7; 11:33; 12:11
- James
- 1:20; 2:23; 3:18
- 1 Peter
- 2:24; 3:14
- 2 Peter
- 1:1; 2:5; 2:21; 3:13
- 1 John
- 2:29; 3:7; 3:10
- Revelation
- 19:11; 22:11
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