ἄδικος
unjust
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).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 verses where G94 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 16:10 ἄδικος ἄδικός adj nom sg masc adj nom sg masc He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
- Luke 18:11 ἄδικοι adj nom pl masc The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
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.
αδικος (ádikos) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “unjust.” It first appears in Matthew 5:45. With 11 verses in 8 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 27% of its uses. It clusters with Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G94 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 3 verses 27%
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 18%
- Matthew 1 verse 9%
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 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 36%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 27%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 18%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 9%
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: Unjust 7×, Unrighteous 4×
- American Standard Version: Unrighteous 9×, Unjust 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Unrighteous 4×, Unjust 2×, Wicked 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Unrighteous 9×, Unjust 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G94 across 12 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 G94 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G94 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G94 across 14 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 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.
- descriptive of one who violates or has violated justice
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G94 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀδίκων adíkōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 24:15 | 3 |
| ἄδικος ádikos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:10 | 3 |
| ἀδίκους adíkous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 5:45 | 2 |
| ἄδικοι ádikoi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 18:11 | 2 |
| ἀδίκῳ adíkō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:11 | 1 |
| ἄδικός ádikós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 16:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G94, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
- αθεος átheos G112 godless
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 179 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αδικος appears 85 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 80 verses in 16 books.
- 85
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 80
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:8 ἄδικος
- Exodus 23:1 ἄδικος
- Leviticus 19:12 ἄδικος
- Deuteronomy 19:16 ἄδικος
- 1 Samuel 25:21 ἄδικος
- 2 Samuel 18:13 ἄδικος
- 2 Kings 9:12 ἄδικος
- Job 5:16 ἄδικος
- Psalms 17:49 ἄδικος
- Proverbs 4:24 ἄδικος
- Isaiah 9:16 ἄδικος
- Jeremiah 5:31 ἄδικος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G94) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 80. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:8 ἄδικος See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Exodus 23:1 ἄδικος "You shall not spread a false report. Don't join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
- Exodus 23:7 ἄδικος "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
- Leviticus 19:12 ἄδικος "'You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:15 ἄδικος "'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.
- Leviticus 19:35 ἄδικος "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- Deuteronomy 19:16 ἄδικος If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,
- Deuteronomy 19:18 ἄδικος and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
- Deuteronomy 25:16 ἄδικος For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- 1 Samuel 25:21 ἄδικος Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.
- 2 Samuel 18:13 ἄδικος Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the king), then you yourself would have set yourself against [me].
- 2 Samuel 22:3 ἄδικος God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My savior, you save me from violence.
- 2 Kings 9:12 ἄδικος They said, It is false; tell us now. He said, Thus and thus spoke he to me, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.
- Job 5:16 ἄδικος So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.
- Job 5:22 ἄδικος At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
- Job 6:29 ἄδικος Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 6:30 ἄδικος Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
- Job 13:4 ἄδικος But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
- Job 16:11 ἄδικος God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 16:17 ἄδικος Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
- Job 18:21 ἄδικος Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, This is the place of him who doesn't know God."
- Job 22:15 ἄδικος Will you keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden,
- Job 22:23 ἄδικος If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
- Job 24:20 ἄδικος The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
- Job 27:4 ἄδικος Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 29:17 ἄδικος I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- Job 31:3 ἄδικος Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
- Job 36:4 ἄδικος For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- Job 36:23 ἄδικος Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'
- Psalms 17:49 ἄδικος
- Psalms 24:19 ἄδικος
- Psalms 26:12 ἄδικος My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
- Psalms 34:11 ἄδικος Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
- Psalms 42:1 ἄδικος As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.
- Psalms 62:12 ἄδικος Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, For you reward every man according to his work.
- Psalms 100:7 ἄδικος
- Psalms 118:118 ἄδικος
- Psalms 118:128 ἄδικος
- Psalms 119:2 ἄδικος Blessed are those who keep his statutes, Who seek him with their whole heart.
- Psalms 139:2 ἄδικος You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
- Psalms 139:5 ἄδικος You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
- Psalms 139:12 ἄδικος Even the darkness doesn't hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
- Proverbs 4:24 ἄδικος Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Proverbs 6:17 ἄδικος Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
- Proverbs 6:19 ἄδικος A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
- Proverbs 10:31 ἄδικος The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, But the perverse tongue will be cut off.
- Proverbs 11:18 ἄδικος Wicked people earn deceitful wages, But one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
- Proverbs 12:17 ἄδικος He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 12:19 ἄδικος Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Proverbs 12:21 ἄδικος No mischief shall happen to the righteous, But the wicked shall be filled with evil.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G94) 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.
