Bible word study

Dikaios (Strong’s G1342): Meaning in the Bible

Dikaios (δίκαιος) is the Greek word numbered G1342 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively). In the King James Bible it is translated just, meet, right(-eous)..

• Original wordδίκαιος
• Transliterationdíkaios
• Pronunciationdik'-ah-yos
• Strong’s numberG1342
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G1349;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Dikaios appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Dikaios (G1342) stands behind 81 English renderings in 76 verses across 20 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (19), Luke (11), Romans (7).

How the King James Bible renders Dikaios, by count

• righteous24 of 81 (30 percent)
• just22 of 81 (27 percent)
• the righteous7 of 81 (9 percent)
• man5 of 81 (6 percent)
• right4 of 81 (5 percent)
• meet2 of 81 (2 percent)

Three places to read Dikaios

• Matthew 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
• Luke 18:9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
• 2 Thessalonians 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Dikaios in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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