δίκαιος
righteous
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G1342 appears in the Vocative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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
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.
- #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 →
By section of the New Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- righteous, observing divine laws
Word origin
Derived from δικη (díkē) (G1349) — judgment.
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.
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
- δικαιοκρισια dikaiokrisía G1341 righteous judgment
- δικαιοσυνη dikaiosýnē G1343 righteousness
- δικαιοω dikaióō G1344 to justify
- δικαιως dikaíōs G1346 justly
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
- Genesis 6:9 δίκαιος
- Exodus 9:27 δίκαιος
- Leviticus 19:36 δίκαιος
- Numbers 23:10 δίκαιος
- Deuteronomy 4:8 δίκαιος
- 1 Samuel 2:2 δίκαιος
- 2 Samuel 4:11 δίκαιος
- 1 Kings 2:32 δίκαιος
- 2 Kings 10:9 δίκαιος
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 δίκαιος
- Ezra 9:15 δίκαιος
- Job 1:1 δίκαιος
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.
- Genesis 6:9 δίκαιος This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
- Genesis 7:1 δίκαιος Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 18:23 δίκαιος Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
- Genesis 18:24 δίκαιος What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?
- Genesis 18:25 δίκαιος Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Genesis 18:26 δίκαιος Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
- Genesis 18:28 δίκαιος What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
- Genesis 20:4 δίκαιος Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
- Exodus 9:27 δίκαιος Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Exodus 18:21 δίκαιος Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 23:7 δίκαιος "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Exodus 23:8 δίκαιος You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
- Leviticus 19:36 δίκαιος Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 23:10 δίκαιος Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!
- Deuteronomy 4:8 δίκαιος What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
- Deuteronomy 16:18 δίκαιος Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Deuteronomy 16:19 δίκαιος You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
- Deuteronomy 16:20 δίκαιος That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 25:1 δίκαιος If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
- Deuteronomy 25:15 δίκαιος A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 δίκαιος The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- 1 Samuel 2:2 δίκαιος There is none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any rock like our God.
- 1 Samuel 2:9 δίκαιος He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
- 1 Samuel 24:18 δίκαιος You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.
- 2 Samuel 4:11 δίκαιος How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- 1 Kings 2:32 δίκαιος Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
- 1 Kings 8:32 δίκαιος then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 2 Kings 10:9 δίκαιος It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 δίκαιος then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
- 2 Chronicles 12:6 δίκαιος Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh is righteous.
- Ezra 9:15 δίκαιος Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this.
- Ezra 19:8 δίκαιος
- Ezra 19:33 δίκαιος
- Job 1:1 δίκαιος There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
- Job 5:5 δίκαιος Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
- Job 6:29 δίκαιος Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 8:3 δίκαιος Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
- Job 9:2 δίκαιος "Truly I know that it is so, But how can man be just with God?
- Job 9:15 δίκαιος Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
- Job 9:20 δίκαιος Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
- Job 9:23 δίκαιος If the scourge kills suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
- Job 10:15 δίκαιος If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
- Job 11:2 δίκαιος "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 12:4 δίκαιος I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
- Job 13:18 δίκαιος See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
- Job 15:14 δίκαιος What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Job 17:8 δίκαιος Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
- Job 22:19 δίκαιος The righteous see it, and are glad; The innocent ridicule them,
- Job 24:4 δίκαιος They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Job 24:11 δίκαιος They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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.
