δικαιοσύνη
righteousness
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- 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.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1343 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Galatians. 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.
Galatians
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.
“righteousness” is the headline sense of the Greek noun δικαιοσυνη (dikaiosýnē). First canonically at Matthew 3:15, it enters the text early. It appears 86 verses across 19 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1343 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 →
- 86
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 86 distinct verses.
- 19 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
- #188
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 188 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 86 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 29 verses 34%
- Matthew 7 verses 8%
- 2 Corinthians 7 verses 8%
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 86 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 52 verses · 60%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 12 verses · 14%
- Gospels 10 verses · 12%
- Johannine 7 verses · 8%
- Hebrews 6 verses · 7%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 6%
- Revelation 2 verses · 2%
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: Righteousness 87×, After righteousness 2×, Righteousness' sake 2×
- American Standard Version: Righteousness 83×, After righteousness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Righteousness 83×, Is right 2×, Justice 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Righteousness 88×, Of 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1343 across 92 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1343 across 90 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1343 across 90 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1343 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 2 senses 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.
- in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
- in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due
Word origin
Derived from δικαιος (díkaios) (G1342) — righteous.
From G1342 ; equity (of character or act); specifically (Christian) justification : - righteousness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1343 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δικαιοσύνην dikaiosýnēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 3:15 | 37 |
| δικαιοσύνης dikaiosýnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:10 | 29 |
| δικαιοσύνῃ dikaiosýnē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:75 | 14 |
| δικαιοσύνη dikaiosýnē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:20 | 12 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1343, 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
- δικαιοκρισια dikaiokrisía G1341 righteous judgment
- δικαιοω dikaióō G1344 to justify
- δικαιως dikaíōs G1346 justly
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word δικαιοσυνη appears 264 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 256 verses in 27 books.
- 264
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 256
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 15:6 δικαιοσύνη
- Exodus 15:13 δικαιοσύνη
- Leviticus 19:15 δικαιοσύνη
- Deuteronomy 9:4 δικαιοσύνη
- Joshua 24:14 δικαιοσύνη
- Judges 5:11 δικαιοσύνη
- 1 Samuel 2:10 δικαιοσύνη
- 2 Samuel 8:15 δικαιοσύνη
- 1 Kings 3:6 δικαιοσύνη
- 1 Chronicles 18:14 δικαιοσύνη
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 δικαιοσύνη
- Ezra 12:20 δικαιοσύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1343) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 256. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 15:6 δικαιοσύνη He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
- Genesis 18:19 δικαιοσύνη For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 19:19 δικαιοσύνη See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Genesis 20:5 δικαιοσύνη Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
- Genesis 20:13 δικαιοσύνη It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"
- Genesis 21:23 δικαιοσύνη Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
- Genesis 24:27 δικαιοσύνη He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
- Genesis 24:49 δικαιοσύνη Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 30:33 δικαιοσύνη So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you come concerning my hire that is before you. Everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that might be with me, will be counted stolen."
- Genesis 32:11 δικαιοσύνη Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Exodus 15:13 δικαιοσύνη "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 34:7 δικαιοσύνη keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Leviticus 19:15 δικαιοσύνη "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 9:4 δικαιοσύνη Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 9:5 δικαιοσύνη Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:6 δικαιοσύνη Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
- Deuteronomy 33:19 δικαιοσύνη They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, The hidden treasures of the sand.
- Deuteronomy 33:21 δικαιοσύνη He provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved; He came [with] the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.
- Joshua 24:14 δικαιοσύνη Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh.
- Judges 5:11 δικαιοσύνη Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 δικαιοσύνη Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 1 Samuel 12:7 δικαιοσύνη Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
- 1 Samuel 26:23 δικαιοσύνη Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Samuel 8:15 δικαιοσύνη David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people.
- 2 Samuel 22:21 δικαιοσύνη Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- 2 Samuel 22:25 δικαιοσύνη Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
- 1 Kings 3:6 δικαιοσύνη Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 3:9 δικαιοσύνη Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?
- 1 Kings 8:32 δικαιοσύνη 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.
- 1 Kings 10:9 δικαιοσύνη Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do justice and righteousness.
- 1 Chronicles 18:14 δικαιοσύνη David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all his people.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17 δικαιοσύνη I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
- 2 Chronicles 6:23 δικαιοσύνη 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 9:8 δικαιοσύνη Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
- Ezra 12:20 δικαιοσύνη
- Job 8:6 δικαιοσύνη If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Job 22:28 δικαιοσύνη You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
- Job 24:13 δικαιοσύνη "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
- Job 27:6 δικαιοσύνη I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
- Job 29:14 δικαιοσύνη I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
- Job 33:26 δικαιοσύνη He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: He restores to man his righteousness.
- Job 35:8 δικαιοσύνη Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; And your righteousness may profit a son of man.
- Psalms 4:2 δικαιοσύνη You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
- Psalms 4:6 δικαιοσύνη Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
- Psalms 5:9 δικαιοσύνη For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 7:9 δικαιοσύνη Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the righteous; Their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
- Psalms 7:18 δικαιοσύνη
- Psalms 9:5 δικαιοσύνη You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Psalms 9:9 δικαιοσύνη Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; A high tower in times of trouble.
- Psalms 10:7 δικαιοσύνη His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1343) 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.
