ἀδικία
injustice
‘injustice’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- 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).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G93 appears in the Book of James — 1 distinct verse. 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.
James
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.
At its core, αδικια (adikía) means “injustice.” Translators differ — “unrighteousness” in the King James Version, then “wickedness” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 25 verses in 12 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Luke 13:27, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 25-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G93 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 →
- 25
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 25 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #513
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 513 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 25 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 25 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 11 verses · 44%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 24%
- Gospels 5 verses · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 20%
- Johannine 3 verses · 12%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 8%
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: Unrighteousness 15×, Iniquity 6×, Unjust 2×
- American Standard Version: Unrighteousness 13×, Iniquity 4×, Unrighteous 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wickedness 10×, Unrighteousness 3×, Iniquity 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Unrighteousness 21×, Unrighteous 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G93 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G93 across 24 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G93 across 24 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G93 across 27 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- injustice, of a judge
- unrighteousness of heart and life
- a deed violating law and justice, act of unrighteousness
Word origin
Derived from αδικος (ádikos) (G94) — unjust.
From G94 ; (legal) injustice (properly the quality by implication the act); moral wrongfulness (of charater life or act): - iniquity unjust unrighteousness wrong.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G93 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀδικίας adikías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 13:27 | 13 |
| ἀδικίᾳ adikía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:18 | 5 |
| ἀδικία adikía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 7:18 | 4 |
| ἀδικίαν adikían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:18 | 3 |
| ἀδικίαις adikíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Hebrews 8:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G93, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αδικια appears 180 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 169 verses in 30 books.
- 180
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 169
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:11 ἀδικία
- Exodus 34:7 ἀδικία
- Leviticus 16:21 ἀδικία
- Numbers 14:18 ἀδικία
- Deuteronomy 19:15 ἀδικία
- Judges 9:24 ἀδικία
- 1 Samuel 3:13 ἀδικία
- 2 Samuel 3:8 ἀδικία
- 1 Kings 2:32 ἀδικία
- 2 Kings 17:4 ἀδικία
- 1 Chronicles 17:9 ἀδικία
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 ἀδικία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G93) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 169. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:11 ἀδικία The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:13 ἀδικία God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 26:20 ἀδικία The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Genesis 44:16 ἀδικία Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 49:5 ἀδικία "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.
- Genesis 50:17 ἀδικία "So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
- Exodus 34:7 ἀδικία 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 16:21 ἀδικία Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.
- Leviticus 16:22 ἀδικία The goat shall carry all their iniquities on himself to a solitary land, and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
- Leviticus 18:25 ἀδικία The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
- Numbers 14:18 ἀδικία Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Deuteronomy 19:15 ἀδικία One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 ἀδικία The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- Judges 9:24 ἀδικία that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- 1 Samuel 3:13 ἀδικία For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
- 1 Samuel 3:14 ἀδικία Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering forever.
- 1 Samuel 14:41 ἀδικία Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped.
- 1 Samuel 20:8 ἀδικία Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
- 1 Samuel 25:24 ἀδικία She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.
- 1 Samuel 28:10 ἀδικία Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.
- 2 Samuel 3:8 ἀδικία Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
- 2 Samuel 3:34 ἀδικία Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so did you fall. All the people wept again over him.
- 2 Samuel 7:10 ἀδικία I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first,
- 2 Samuel 7:14 ἀδικία I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
- 2 Samuel 14:32 ἀδικία Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 ἀδικία There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.
- 1 Kings 2:32 ἀδικία 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 8:50 ἀδικία and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
- 1 Kings 17:18 ἀδικία She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!
- 2 Kings 17:4 ἀδικία The king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9 ἀδικία I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 ἀδικία Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
- Job 11:14 ἀδικία If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- Job 15:16 ἀδικία How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!
- Job 33:17 ἀδικία That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
- Job 34:6 ἀδικία Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
- Job 34:32 ἀδικία Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
- Job 36:10 ἀδικία He also opens their ears to instruction, And commands that they return from iniquity.
- Job 36:18 ἀδικία Don't let riches entice you to wrath, Neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
- Job 36:33 ἀδικία The noise of it tells about him, And the cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.
- Psalms 7:4 ἀδικία If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (Yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
- Psalms 7:15 ἀδικία He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
- Psalms 7:17 ἀδικία I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, And will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
- Psalms 10:5 ἀδικία His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
- Psalms 16:3 ἀδικία As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Psalms 26:12 ἀδικία My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
- Psalms 27:3 ἀδικία Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, Even then I will be confident.
- Psalms 51:4 ἀδικία Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
- Psalms 51:5 ἀδικία Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 54:11 ἀδικία
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G93) 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.
