Strong's Number 1343

Transliteration:
dikaiosune {dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay}
Word Origin:
from 1342
TDNT:
2:192,168
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
righteousness 92

Total: 92
Definition:
  1. in a broad sense: state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition acceptable to God
    1. the doctrine concerning the way in which man may attain a state approved of God
    2. integrity, virtue, purity of life, rightness, correctness of thinking feeling, and acting
  2. in a narrower sense, justice or the virtue which gives each his due