G1344

• {"n":"dikaioo","s":"To justify. A courtroom verb meaning to declare in the right, not to make good.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=dikaioo","r":"Romans 3:24","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads justify or declare righteous. No major version departs."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Justify your answer.** **The court found in his favour.** The second is the sense. The first is what English drifted into."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Dikaioo is built on the same root as dikaiosune and belongs in legal vocabulary: to pronounce someone in the right. It is a statement about standing, not a description of character improvement."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English justify moved toward offering an excuse, which is nearly the opposite of a verdict handed down by someone else."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Verbs ending in this Greek shape are usually declarative rather than causative. The verdict language is in the grammar, not just in the theology built on it."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Justify is the settled majority rendering. Declare righteous appears where a translator wants the verdict sense to be unmissable."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03cc\u03c9 dikaioo \u00b7 G1344"}],"src":["Luke 7:29, the people justified God, which cannot mean made him righteous","Romans 4:5; 8:33","Same root as dikaios, righteous, and dike, justice"]}