October 22, 2007 WORD STUDY The Greek word is translated in Romans chapter 5 as justified.

. There are three main areas, consisting of the semantic field, semantic range, and the context of the passage surrounding the word, that need to be discussed to obtain the proper analysis of this word here.

Semantic Field There are a few other words that come from the same Greek word , and some of these include acknowledged justice, acquitted, freed, justifier, justifies, justify, and vindicated.1 While all these words come from the same Greek word; it is translated to justified a significant majority of the time. The opposite of justified is condemned.

Semantic Range The common definition for is to bring out the fact that a person is righteous.2 However a definition for this word in Classical Greek is to make a person righteous by allowing the person to bear his own condemnation, judgment, punishment, or chastisement.3 This second definition never happens in the New Testament because no one person could pay the price for their sin in order to be pardoned in order to make them

Thomas, Robert L., and W. D. Wilkins. "." Gospel Advocate Bible Study Library. Gospel Advocate Company Version 2005. ed. New American Standard Hebrew Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. vols. La Habra, Calif.: The Lockman Foundation, 1998. Zodhiates, Spiros. "Justification." Gospel Advocate Bible Study Library. Gospel Advocate Company Version 2005. Print ed.: Spiros Zodhiates, ed. The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament. 1 vols. : AMG, 1992. Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament

righteous or justified.4 One way I once heard it said to put it in laymans terms was that it means just-if-Id never sinned. It is Gods way which he pardons the sins of anyone who believes in Christ, and treats them as righteous or justified. Context

Pauls use of the word justified agrees with the Old Testament by indicating that justification requires an action on Gods part.5 While it requires this act by God being justified also requires faith on our part; in verse one of chapter five it says we are justified by faith.6 The result of being justified by faith is that we are at peace with God.7

Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament Hawthorne, Gerald F., and Ralph P. Martin. "." Gospel Advocate Bible Study Library. Gospel Advocate Company Version 2005. Print ed.: Reid G. Daniel, ed. Encyclopedia of Bible Facts. vols. : InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 1993.

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