69 occurrences in 11 translations

'Unjust' in the Bible

He went out the next day and saw two Hebrew men fighting with each other; and he said to the aggressor, “Why are you striking your friend?”

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Reconsider; don’t be unjust.Reconsider; my righteousness is still the issue.

Have I said anything that's unjust? I can discern evil, can't I?"

“Will you speak what is unjust for God,And speak what is deceitful for Him?

“Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]?Will you contend and plead for God?

God hands me over to unjust men;He throws me into the hands of the wicked.

May my enemy be like the wickedand my opponent like the unjust.

I shattered the fangs of the unjustand snatched the prey from his teeth.

if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity?

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked,from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive.

He says, "How long will you make unjust legal decisions and show favoritism to the wicked? (Selah)

Be assured that the evil person will certainly be punished, but the descendants of the righteous will not suffer unjust judgment.

An inheritance hastily gained [by greedy, unjust means] at the beginningWill not be blessed in the end.

A leader who lacks understandingis very oppressive,but one who hates dishonest profitprolongs his life.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,He who rejects unjust gainAnd shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshedAnd shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

He was led away after an unjust trial -- but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.

And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.And they are shepherds who have no understanding;They have all turned to their own way,Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;I hid My face and was angry,And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech,

They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,Everyone is greedy for [unfair] gain;And from the prophet even to the priestEveryone deals deceitfully.

“Therefore I will give their wives to othersAnd their fields to new owners;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is greedy for [unjust] gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices deceit and deals in corruption.

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

if he doesn't lend with usury or exact interest, but instead refuses to participate in what is unjust, if he administers true justice between people,

"Yet you say, 'The Lord's conduct is unjust!' Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

Yet the house of Israel says, 'The Lord's conduct is unjust!' Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

“Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made and against the blood shed among you.

“Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

Israel, you have sinnedsince the days of Gibeah;they have taken their stand there.Will not war against the unjustovertake them in Gibeah?

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

“Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,For your horn I will make ironAnd your hoofs I will make bronze,That you may pulverize many peoples,That you may devote to the Lord their unjust gainAnd their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

"Woe to the one who amasses profit upon unjust profit in order to establish his household, so he can establish a secure place on the heights and escape from the power of evil.

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.

(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not wrong to inflict His wrath [on us], is He? (I am speaking in purely human terms.)

You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust.

For this finds favor, if a person endures the sorrow of suffering unjustly because of an awareness of [the will of] God.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
און 
'aven 
Usage: 79

עול 
`aval 
Usage: 2

עלה עולה עולה עול עול 
`evel 
Usage: 53

עוּל 
`avval 
Usage: 5

תּרבּית 
Tarbiyth 
Usage: 6

G91
ἀδικέω 
Adikeo 
hurt , do wrong , wrong , suffer wrong , be unjust , take wrong , injure , be an offender , vr hope
Usage: 24

G93
ἀδικία 
Adikia 
Usage: 20

G94
ἄδικος 
Adikos 
Usage: 7

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