Strong G91ἀδικέω

to harm

Transliteration
adikeō
Pronunciation
ad-ee-keh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G94; to be unjust that is (actively) do wrong (morally socially or physically): - hurt injure be an offender be unjust (do suffer take) wrong.

Detailed definition

ἀδικέω, -ῶ
(ἄδικος), [in LXX for עשׁק, עוה, etc.;]

1. intrans., to be ἄδικος, do wrong, act wickedly or criminally: Act.25:11, 1Co.6:8, 2Co.7:12, Col.3:25, Rev.22:11; to do hurt, Rev.9:19.

2. Trans.
__(a) to do some wrong: ὃ ἠδίκησεν, Col.3:25; to wrong some one, Mat.20:13, Act.7:26, 27 25:10, 2Co.7:2, Gal.4:12, Phm 18, 2Pe.2:13; pass., Act.7:24, 2Co.7:12; mid., 1Co.6:7 (suffer... to be wronged; WM, §38, 3; but see Bl., §54, 5; and cf. ἀποστερέω);
__(b) to injure, hurt: Luk.10:19 Rev.2:11 6:6 7:2, 3 9:4,10 11:5.
† (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G91 appears in 23 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • hurt9
  • wrong7
  • do4
  • ye3
  • shall2
  • suffer2
  • hath1
  • injure1
  • let1
  • offender1
  • should1
  • take1

First verses

  1. Matthew 20:13
    But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
  2. Luke 10:19
    Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
  3. Acts 7:24
    And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
  4. Acts 7:26
    And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
  5. Acts 7:27
    But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
  6. Acts 25:10
    Then said Paul, I stand at Cesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
  7. Acts 25:11
    For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.
  8. 1 Corinthians 6:7
    Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
  9. 1 Corinthians 6:8
    Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
  10. 2 Corinthians 7:2
    Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
  11. 2 Corinthians 7:12
    Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
  12. Galatians 4:12
    Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
  13. Colossians 3:25
    But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
  14. Philemon 1:18
    If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
  15. Revelation 2:11
    He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
  16. Revelation 6:6
    And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
  17. Revelation 7:2
    And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
  18. Revelation 7:3
    Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
  19. Revelation 9:4
    And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
  20. Revelation 9:10
    And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
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ἀδῐκέω,
Aeolic dialect ἀδικήω [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.20)], Doric dialect ἀδικίω [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.138: _Ionic dialect_)]imperfect ἠδίκεον or ἠδίκευν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.121)]:—passive, future in middle form ἀδικήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1436, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.56, etc.; also ἀδικηθήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.9.23, etc.)]: —to be ἄδικος, do wrong (defined by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1368b6 τὸ βλάπτειν ἑκόντα παρὰ τὸν νόμον, compare ἀδίκημα), τῶν ἀδικησάντων τίσις ἔσσεται)]those who have sinned, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Hymnus in Cererem 367; frequently in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] and Attic dialect; τἀδικεῖν wrong-doing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1059)]; τὸ μὴ ἀδικεῖν righteous dealing, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 85, 749)]:— in legal phrase, do wrong in the eye of the law, the particular case being added in participle, as Σωκράτης ἀ... ποιῶν.. καὶ διδάσκων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἀδικίαν, ἀδικήματα, etc., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 344c, 409a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389b7; also ἀ. οὐδὲν ἄξιον δεσμοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.145)]; ἀ. πολλά, μεγάλα, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 188a, +others; οὐδέν, μηδὲν ἀ. [prev. work], +others:— ἀ. περὶ τὰ μυστήρια 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.175, compare “IG” 2.811c154)]; ἀ. εἰς πόλιν, κτῆμα, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 15.39, 31.7)]:—in games or contests, play foul, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 25, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1123b32.)]
b in present, to be in the wrong, εἰ μὴ ἀδικῶ γε if I am not mistaken, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 156a.)]
II transitive with accusative person, wrong, injure, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus “Supp.” 2.13, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.20, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 286, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.112, etc.)]:— ruin, of a girl, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 30)]: with double accusative, wrong one in a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 460; ἃ πολλοὺς ὑμῶν ἠδίκηκεν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.129; μείζον᾽ ἢ ἐλάττονα ἀ. τινά 20.124; ἀ. ἀδικίαν περί τινας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854e)]:—passive, to be wronged, injured, μὴ δῆτ᾽ ἀδικηθῶ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 174; ἀ. εἴς τι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 265; μέγιστα ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.84; οὔτ᾽ ἀδικεῖ οὔτ᾽ ἀδικεῖται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196b, etc.)]; present ἀδικεῖται, -ούμενος used for the perfect ἠδίκηται, -ημένος (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (above 1), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.4.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 359a)]: with accusative, to be defrauded of, μισθὸν ἀδικίας variant in [NT (NT.2Pet.2.13.)]
II.2 harm, injure, ἀ. γῆν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.71, etc.; ἵππον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 6.3; especially in Medical sense, ἄνθρωπον 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος ἀνθρώπου” 9; νεφρούς 3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.62f; τέμνειν καὶ θλᾶν καὶ ὁπωσοῦν ἄλλως ἀ. 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 13.8, compare 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 14.)]