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δίκαιος

righteous

G1342 Strong's Greek
díkaios Transliteration
/dik'-ah-yos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 79 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek adjective δικαιος centers on the idea of “righteous.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 1:19. Spanning 74 verses in 20 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Related forms include δικη, δικαστης and δικαιοκρισια. Dig into 74-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
just
Modern gloss
righteous
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1342 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

74
distinct verses
The word appears in 74 distinct verses.
20 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:19
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:19.
Revelation 22:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 22:11.
#214
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 214 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 74 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 30 · 41%
  • Acts 6 · 8%
  • Pauline Epistles 17 · 23%
  • General Epistles 16 · 22%
  • Revelation 5 · 7%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 74 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 30 verses · 41%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 17 verses · 23%
  • Pauline corpus 17 verses · 23%
  • Johannine 13 verses · 18%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 13 verses · 18%
  • Revelation 5 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 4%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Righteous 30×, Just 21×, Righteous man 6×
  • American Standard Version: Righteous 46×, Righteous man 9×, Just 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Righteous 54×, Right 8×, Just 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Righteous 59×, Righteous one 6×, Man 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1342 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Righteous” 30×
  • “Just” 21×
  • “Righteous man” 6×
  • “Right” 4×
  • “Are just” 2×
  • “Just men” 2×
  • “Just one” 2×
  • “Meet” 2×
  • “Shall the righteous” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1342 across 80 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Righteous” 46×
  • “Righteous man” 9×
  • “Just” 6×
  • “Right” 4×
  • “Are just” 2×
  • “Righteous one” 2×

Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1342 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Righteous” 54×
  • “Right” 8×
  • “Just” 6×
  • “Righteous one” 3×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1342 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Righteous” 59×
  • “Righteous one” 6×
  • “Man” 4×
  • “Righteous ones” 4×
  • “Just” 3×
  • “Right” 3×
  • “Is right” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. righteous, observing divine laws

Word origin

Derived from δικη (díkē) (G1349) — judgment.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 05:02,2

From G1349 ; equitable (in character or act); by implication innocent holy (absolutely or relatively): - just meet right (-eous).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 16 distinct written forms G1342 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
δίκαιον díkaion Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 10:41 17
δίκαιος díkaios Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 1:19 16
δίκαιοι díkaioi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:17 9
δικαίου dikaíou Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Matthew 10:41 6
δικαίους dikaíous Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 5:45 6
δικαίων dikaíōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 13:49 6
δίκαιός díkaiós Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 10:38 4
δίκαιαι díkaiai Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Revelation 15:3 3
δίκαια díkaia Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Philippians 4:8 2
δικαία dikaía Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine John 5:30 2
δικαίαν dikaían Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine John 7:24 2
δικαίῳ dikaíō Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 27:19 2
δίκαιε díkaie Adjective, Vocative, Singular, Masculine John 17:25 1
δίκαιόν díkaión Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter Acts 4:19 1
δικαίας dikaías Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 2 Thessalonians 1:5 1
δικαίοις dikaíois Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine Luke 15:7 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1342, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word δικαιος appears 303 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 281 verses in 28 books.

303
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
281
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
28 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1342) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 281. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1342) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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