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δικαίωσις

justification

‘justification’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1347 Strong's Greek
dikaíōsis Transliteration
/dik-ah'-yo-sis/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek noun δικαιωσις centers on the idea of “justification.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Romans dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. First canonically at Romans 4:25, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
justification
Modern gloss
justification
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1347 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Romans 4:25
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Romans 4:25.
Romans 5:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Romans 5:18.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%

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: Justification 2×
  • American Standard Version: Justification 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Justification 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Justification 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1347 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Justification” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1347 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Justification” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1347 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Justification” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1347 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Justification” 2×

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.

  1. the act of God declaring men free from guilt and acceptable to him
  2. abjuring to be righteous, justification

Word origin

Derived from δικαιοω (dikaióō) (G1344) — to justify.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 05:43,2

From G1344 ; acquittal (for christ´ s sake): - justification.

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


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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word δικαιωσις appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.

1
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1
verse
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

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