Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer. 2. (v. t.) To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously. 3. (v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with 4. (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil. 5. (n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia REVENGE; REVENGER re-venj', re-venj'-er: The same Hebrew and Greek words are used to express the idea of "to avenge" and "to revenge" (naqam, or derivative; ekdikeo, or derivative). In English these words are synonymous in that they are both used to express the infliction of punishment upon the wrongdoer, but "to take revenge" may also imply a spiteful, wrong or malignant spirit. In the latter case, the Revised Version (British and American) preserves "revenge" (compare Jeremiah 20:10 Ezekiel 25:15; Ezekiel 25:17 is an anthropomorphism), but, wherever it is synonymous with "avenge," this word is used (compare Numbers 31:2, 3 Psalm 79:10 Nahum 1:2; Jdt 13:20; Romans 13:4 2 Corinthians 7:11; 2 Corinthians 10:6 the Revised Version (British and American); the King James Version has "revenge" in all these cases). In Deuteronomy 32:42, the King James Version "revenge" is a wrong translation. Read with the Revised Version (British and American) "from the head of the leaders of the enemy" or the Revised Version margin "the hairy head of the enemy." Compare AVENGE, AVENGER; BLOOD; GOEL. A. L. Breslich

Multi-Version Concordance Revenge (13 Occurrences) Romans 12:19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." (WEB WEY NAS NIV) 2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. (KJV) Leviticus 19:18 "'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh. (See NIV) Judges 15:7 Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease." (See NAS NIV) Judges 16:28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." (See NIV) 1 Samuel 18:25 Saul said, "You shall tell David,'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. (See NIV) Psalms 44:16 For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful. (Root in JPS NIV) Proverbs 6:34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. (See RSV NIV) Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. (KJV) Jeremiah 20:10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 24:8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered. (See NIV) Ezekiel 25:12 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them; (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 25:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)