Lexicon
ἀδίκημα
adikēma
G0092
G:N-N Greek

crime

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Adikema denotes a wrongful act alleged before officials or remembered among accumulated offenses.

The term denotes a wrongful act or offense: it appears in judicial allegations in Acts 18:14 and Acts 24:20, and in Revelation 18:5 in the plural for offenses remembered by God.

Senses in use

  1. Wrongful act or offense · dominant

    In Acts 18:14, the nominative singular occurs in Gallio's conditional statement about a matter that could warrant hearing the Jews; the APB renders the clause, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious crime." In Acts 24:20, the accusative singular is what the men are asked to identify from Paul's appearance before the council, while Revelation 18:5 uses the accusative plural where God remembered her offenses; the APB renders these clauses with "wrongdoing" and "crimes."

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the surrounding clauses with "wrongdoing," "serious crime," and "crimes." These renderings confirm the verses' accusatory and remembered-offense contexts rather than assigning each English expression precisely to the term.

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