eye for eye
Matching harm returned
Eye for eye is the principle that punishment should match the offense—if someone takes your eye, you take theirs.
The phrase comes from biblical law but now usually appears in discussions of retributive justice or revenge: Their foreign policy is eye for eye.
Also *an eye for an eye*.
- tit for tatEquivalent retaliation
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- blowMove air forcefully
- retaliationPunitive response to injury
- getting evenReciprocating a wrong
settling scores · pay back · Hammurabi · pain · proportionality · punishment · justice · blood · retributive justice · strike · fairness · equity · wound · accountability · Old Testament · punch · vengeance · karma
- vengeancerevenge, vengeance, vendetta, retribution, retaliation
- ancient lawsCode of Hammurabi, Hammurabi, Roman law, Twelve Tables, Ten Commandments
- Mosaic lawMoses, Mosaic law, Ten Commandments, tablets of stone, commandment
- retaliationrevenge, retaliation, payback, reprisal, vengeance
- Scripture PhrasesJohn 3:16, Lord's Prayer, Our Father, Ten Commandments, Beatitudes
- folk customsfolk dances, folk customs, burial rite, folk costumes, folk traditions
eye for eyeforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
mercy · turn the other cheek · grace · pardon · clemency
eye for eyeturn the other cheek
Refuse to retaliate
nonviolence · pacifism · nonretaliation · nonresistance · peacemaking