1) to vindicate one's right, do one justice
1a) to protect, defend, one person from another
2) to avenge a thing
2a) to punish a person for a thing
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 2:442, 215
G1556
From G1558; to vindicate, retaliate, punish: - a (re-) venge.
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| c punish | 38.8 |
| b revenge | 39.33 |
| a give justice | 56.35 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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