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Strong's #1738 - ἔνδικος
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- according to right, righteous, just
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ἔνδῐκ-ος, Arc. ἴνδικος, ον, (δίκη):
I of things,
1. according to right, just, legitimate, Pi. P. 5.103; γόος ἔ. A. Ch. 330 (lyr.); ὀνείδη Id. Eu. 135; λέκτρα IG 12(5).675.4 (Syros); κρίμα.Romans 3:8 : τὸ μὴ 'νδικον, = τὸ ἄδικον, S. OT 682 (lyr.); τὰ πάντων ἐνδικώτατα Id. OC 925; μὴ λέγων γε τοὔνδικον not speaking truth, Id. OT 1158.
2. legal, ἔ. ἡμέρα a court -day, Poll. 8.25. having a locus standi, μή οἱ ἔστω ἴνδικον μηδέποθι ἀλλ' ἢ.. he shall not have the right to sue, IG 5(2).6.33 (Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. Foed.Delph.Pell. 2 A 16, Pl. Lg. 915d, IG 22.46c56. = ἔνοχος δίκα, Leg.Gort. 3.23, 11.22. ἔ. πόλις a city in which justice is done, Pl. Hp.Ma. 292b; in which sales may be publicly registered, Milet. 3.140.
II of persons,
1. upright, just, A. Eu. 699, S. Ant. 208; πρὸς ἐνδίκοις φρεσίν A. Ag. 996 (lyr.); δῆμος ἐνδικώτατος Id. Fr. 196: dat., ἔ. γάμοις favourable to them, Id. Supp. 82 (lyr.).
2. possessed of right, τίς μᾶλλον ἐνδικώτερος; who has a better right ? Id. Th. 673.
III Adv. -κως
1. right, with justice, fairly, Id. Pr. 63, Ch. 462 (lyr.), etc.; ὀρθῶς ἐ. τ' ἐπώνυμος Id. Th. 405: Sup. -ώτατα Pl. Ti. 85b.
2. justly, naturally, as one has a right to expect, S. OT 135, E. Andr. 920.
ἔνδικος, ἔνδικον (δίκη), according to right, righteous, just: Romans 3:8; Hebrews 2:2. (Pindar, Trag., Plato.)
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* ἔνδικος , -ον
(< δίκη ),
righteous, just: Romans 3:8, Hebrews 2:2 (Cremer, 204).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
The only occurrences we can quote of this adj. (Romans 3:8, Hebrews 2:2) are from the laws of Gortyna (v/B.C.) edited in Michel 1333, e.g. iii. 23 αἰ δέ τι τον τέκνον πέροι, ἔνδικον εμεν.
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