VENGEANCE

In De 32:35 Ro 12:19 Heb 10:30 Jude 1:7, means retributive justice- a prerogative of God with which those interfere who seek to avenge themselves. So also in Ac 28:4; though many suppose that the islanders meant the goddess of justice, Dike, whom the Greeks and Romans regarded as a daughter of Jupiter, and feared as an independent, just, and unappeasable deity.

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VENGEANCE. → Belongs to God Ps 94:1; Ro 12:19 → INSTANCE OF
* Sons of Jacob on Hamor and Shechem Ge 34:20-31
* See JUDGMENTS
* See REVENGE
* See RETALIATION

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vengeance. Vengeance, n. punishment, vehemence

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Venge″ance (?), n. [[F. vengeance, fr. venger to avenge, L. vindicare to lay claim to, defend, avenge, fr. vindex a claimant, defender, avenger, the first part of which is of uncertain origin, and the last part akin to dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Avenge, Revenge, Vindicate.]] 1. 1. Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; — often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Deut. xxxii. 35. To execute fierce vengeance on his foes. Milton. 2. 2. Harm; mischief. Shak.
What a vengeance, or What the vengeance, what! — emphatically. “But what a vengeance makes thee fly!” Hudibras. “What the vengeance! Could he not speak 'em fair?” Shak. — With a vengeance, with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance.