Words the Bible translates as vindicate
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shaphatשָׁפַטto judge: to exercise rightful authority over a person or dispute and set it right, whether by deciding a case, ruling a people, defending the wronged, or punishing the guilty
- ekdikeōἐκδικέωto see justice done: to carry out what a wrong requires, whether by securing the wronged party's rights or by exacting the penalty from the wrongdoer
- dikaioōδικαιόωto declare someone to be in the right: to hand down a favorable verdict, acquitting, clearing, or vindicating a person rather than making the person good
- tsadaqצָדֵקto put someone in the right: to declare, pronounce, or treat a person as righteous, to acquit and vindicate them
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- to be in the right: to stand righteous, just, or cleared, whether as a settled state of life or as a verdict won in a dispute
- dinדִּיןto take up a cause and rule on it: to render and carry out a verdict, most often by securing justice for the wronged
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- to remain, abide: a contested reading found only at Genesis 6:3, and probably a different word from the verb to judge above
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