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Lexicon :: Strong's G2919 - krinō

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κρίνω
Transliteration
krinō (Key)
Pronunciation
kree'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps a primitive word
mGNT
114x in 47 unique form(s)
TR
114x in 44 unique form(s)
LXX
179x in 46 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:921,469

Strong’s Definitions

κρίνω krínō, kree'-no; properly, to distinguish, i.e. decide (mentally or judicially); by implication, to try, condemn, punish:—avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x

The KJV translates Strong's G2919 in the following manner: judge (88x), determine (7x), condemn (5x), go to law (2x), call in question (2x), esteem (2x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x
The KJV translates Strong's G2919 in the following manner: judge (88x), determine (7x), condemn (5x), go to law (2x), call in question (2x), esteem (2x), miscellaneous (8x).
  1. to separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose

  2. to approve, esteem, to prefer

  3. to be of opinion, deem, think, to be of opinion

  4. to determine, resolve, decree

  5. to judge

    1. to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong

      1. to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one's case may be examined and judgment passed upon it

    2. to pronounce judgment, to subject to censure

      1. of those who act the part of judges or arbiters in matters of common life, or pass judgment on the deeds and words of others

  6. to rule, govern

    1. to preside over with the power of giving judicial decisions, because it was the prerogative of kings and rulers to pass judgment

  7. to contend together, of warriors and combatants

    1. to dispute

    2. in a forensic sense

      1. to go to law, have suit at law

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κρίνω krínō, kree'-no; properly, to distinguish, i.e. decide (mentally or judicially); by implication, to try, condemn, punish:—avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.
STRONGS G2919:
κρίνω; future κρίνω; 1 aorist ἔκρινα; perfect κέκρικα; 3 person singular pluperfect, without augment (Winers Grammar, § 12, 9; (Buttmann, 33 (29))), κεκρίκει (Acts 20:16 G L T Tr WH); passive, present κρίνομαι; imperfect ἐκρινομην; perfect κεκριμαι; 1 aorist ἐκριθην (cf. Buttmann, 52 (45)); 1 future κριθήσομαι; the Sept. for שָׁפַט, and also for דּוּן and רִיב; Latin cerno, i. e.
1. to separate, put asunder; to pick out, select, choose (Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Xenophon, Plato, others; μετά νεανίσκων ἀρίστων κεκριμένων (chosen, picked), 2 Macc. 13:15; κεκρίμενοι ἄρχοντες, Josephus, Antiquities 11, 3, 10); hence,
2. to approve, esteem: ἡμέραν παῥ ἡμέραν, one day above another, i. e. to prefer (see παρά, III. 2 b.), Romans 14:5 (so τί πρό τίνος, Plato, Phil., p. 57 e.; τόν Ἀπολλῶ πρό Μαρσυου, rep. 3, p. 399{e}.); πᾶσαν ἡμέραν, to esteem every day, i. e. hold it sacred, ibid.
3. to be of opinion, deem, think: ὀρθῶς ἔκρινας, thou hast decided (judged) correctly, Luke 7:43; followed by an infinitive Acts 15:19; followed by a direct question, 1 Corinthians 11:13; τοῦτο, ὅτι etc. to be of opinion etc. 2 Corinthians 5:14; followed by the accusative with an infinitive Acts 16:15; τινα or τί followed by a predicate accusative, κρίνειν τινα ἄξιον τίνος, to judge one (to be) worthy of a thing, Acts 13:46; ἄπιστον κρίνεται, Acts 26:8.
4. to determine, resolve, decree: τί, 1 Corinthians 7:37 (κρῖναι τί καί πρόθεσθαι, Polybius 3, 6, 7; τό κρίθεν, which one has determined on, one's resolve, 5, 52, 6; 9, 13, 7; τοῖς κριθεισι ἐμμένειν δεῖ, Epictetus diss. 2, 15, 7ff); δόγματα, passive (the decrees that had been ordained (cf. A. V.)), Acts 16:4; τοῦτο κρίνατε, followed by an infinitive preceded by the article τό, Romans 14:13; also with ἐμαυτῷ added, for myself i. e. for my own benefit (lest I should prepare grief for myself by being compelled to grieve you), 2 Corinthians 2:1; followed by an infinitive, Acts 20:16; Acts 25:25; 1 Corinthians 2:2 G L T Tr WH ((see below)); 1 Corinthians 5:3; Titus 3:12 (1 Macc. 11:33; 3Macc. 1:6 3Macc. 6:30; Judith 11:13; Wis. 8:9; Diodorus 17, 95; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 1, 5; 12, 10, 4; 13, 6, 1); with τοῦ prefixed, 1 Corinthians 2:2 Rec. ((see above)); followed by the accusative with an infinitive Acts 21:25 (2 Macc. 11:36); with τοῦ prefixed, Acts 27:1 (cf. Buttmann, § 140, 16 δ.); (κρίνεται τίνι, it is one's pleasure, it seems good to one, 1 Esdr. 6:20f (21f); 1 Esdras 8:90 (92)).
5. to judge;
a. to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong;
α. in a forensic sense ((differing from δικάζειν, the official term, in giving prominence to the intellectual process, the sifting and weighing of evidence)), of a human judge: τινα, to give a decision respecting one, John 7:51; κατά τόν νόμον, John 18:31; Acts 23:3; Acts 24:6 Rec.; the substance of the decision is added in an infinitive, Acts 3:13; passive to be judged, i. e. summoned to trial that one's case may be examined and judgment passed upon it, Acts 25:10; Acts 26:6; Romans 3:4 (from Psalm 50:6 (Ps. 51:4)); περί with the genitive of the thing, Acts 23:6; Acts 24:21; (Acts 25:20); with addition of ἐπί and the genitive of the judge, before one, Acts 25:9. Where the context requires, used of a condemnatory judgment, equivalent to to condemn: simply, Acts 13:27.
β. of the judgment of God or of Jesus the Messiah, deciding between the righteousness and the unrighteousness of men: absolutely, John 5:30; John 8:50; δικαίως, 1 Peter 2:23; ἐν δικαιοσύνη,Revelation 19:11; τινα, 1 Corinthians 5:13; passive James 2:12; ζῶντας καί νεκρούς, 2 Timothy 4:1; 1 Peter 4:5; νεκρούς, passive, Revelation 11:18 (Buttmann, 260 (224)); τήν οἰκουμένην, the inhabitants of the world, Acts 17:31 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 389 (364)); τόν κόσμον, Romans 3:6; τά κρυπτά τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Romans 2:16; κρίνειν τό κρίμα τίνος ἐκ τίνος (see κρίμα, 2 under the end), Revelation 18:20, cf. 6:10; κρίνειν κατά τό ἑκάστου ἔργον, 1 Peter 1:17; τούς νεκρούς ἐκ τῶν γεγραμμένων ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις κατά τά ἔργα αὐτῶν, passive, Revelation 20:12f; with the accusative of the substance of the judgment, thou didst pronounce this judgment, ταῦτα ἔκρινας, Revelation 16:5; contextually, used specifically of the act of condemning and decreeing (or inflicting) penalty on one: τινα, John 3:18; John 5:22; John 12:47; Acts 7:7; Romans 2:12; 1 Corinthians 11:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:12; Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 4:6 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 630 (585)); James 5:9 (where Rec. κατάκριμα); Revelation 18:8; Revelation 19:2 (Wis. 12:10, 22); τόν κόσμον, opposed to σῴζειν, John 3:17; John 12:47; of the devil it is said ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου τούτου κέκριται, because the victorious cause of Christ has rendered the supreme wickedness of Satan evident to all, and put an end to his power to dominate and destroy, John 16:11.
γ. of Christians as hereafter to sit with Christ at the judgment: τόν κόσμον, 1 Corinthians 6:2; ἀγγέλους, 1 Corinthians 6:3 (cf. ἄγγελος, 2 under the end; yet see Meyer edition Heinrici ad the passages cited).
b. to pronounce judgment; to subject to censure; of those who act the part of judges or arbiters in the matters of common life, or pass judgment on the deeds and words of others: universally, and without case, John 8:16, 26; κατά τί, John 8:15; κατ' ὄψιν, John 7:24; ἐν κρίματι τίνι κρίνειν, Matthew 7:2; τινα, passive (with the nominative of person), Romans 3:7; ἐκ τοῦ στόματος σου κρίνω σε, out of thine own mouth (i. e. from what thou hast just said) will I take the judgment that must be passed on thee, Luke 19:22; τί, 1 Corinthians 10:15; passive, 1 Corinthians 10:29; τό δίκαιον, Luke 12:57; followed by εἰ, whether, Acts 4:19; with the accusative of the substance of the judgment: τί i. e. κρίσιν τινα, 1 Corinthians 4:5; κρίσιν κρίνειν (Plato, rep. 2, p. 360 d.) δικαίαν (cf. Buttmann, § 131, 5), John 7:24 (ἀληθινήν καί δικαίαν, Tobit 3:2; κρίσεις ἀδίκους, Susanna 53); of the disciplinary judgment to which Christians subject the conduct of their fellows, passing censure upon them as the facts require, 1 Corinthians 5:12; of those who judge severely (unfairly), finding fault with this or that in others, Matthew 7:1; Luke 6:37; Romans 2:1; τινα, Romans 2:1, 3; Romans 14:3f, 10, 13; followed by ἐν with the dative of the thing, Colossians 2:16; Romans 14:22; hence equivalent to to condemn: Romans 2:27; James 4:11f.
6. Hebraistically equivalent to to rule, govern; to preside over with the power of giving judicial decisions, because it was the prerogative of kings and rulers to pass judgment: Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:30 (τόν λαόν, 2 Kings 15:5; 1 Macc. 9:73; Josephus, Antiquities 5, 3, 3; οἱ κρίνοντες τήν γῆν, Psalm 2:10; Sap. i. 1; cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, iii., p. 1463f).
7. Passive and middle to contend together, of warriors and combatants (Homer, Diodorus, others); to dispute (Herodotus 3, 120; Aristophanes nub. 66); in a forensic sense, to go to law, have a suit at law: with the dative of the person with whom (Winer's Grammar, § 31, 1 g.), Matthew 5:40 (Job 9:3; Job 13:19; Euripides, Med. 609); followed by μετά with the genitive of the person with whom one goes to law, and ἐπί; with the genitive of the judge, 1 Corinthians 6: (1), 6. (Compare: ἀνακρίνω, ἀποκρίνω, ἀνταποκρίνω (ἀνταποκρίνομαι), διακρίνω, ἐνκρίνω, ἐπικρίνω, κατακρίνω, συνκρίνω, ὑποκρίνω (ὑποκρίνομαι), συνυποκρίνω (συνυποκρίνομαι).)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Kings
1; 15:5
Job
9:3; 13:19
Psalms
2:10; 50:6; 51:4
Matthew
5:40; 7:1; 7:2; 19:28
Luke
6:37; 7:43; 12:57; 19:22; 22:30
John
3:17; 3:18; 5:22; 5:30; 7:24; 7:24; 7:51; 8:15; 8:16; 8:26; 8:50; 12:47; 12:47; 16:11; 18:31
Acts
3:13; 4:19; 7:7; 13:27; 13:46; 15:19; 16:4; 16:15; 17:31; 20:16; 20:16; 21:25; 23:3; 23:6; 24:6; 24:21; 25:9; 25:10; 25:20; 25:25; 26:6; 26:8; 27:1
Romans
2:1; 2:1; 2:3; 2:12; 2:16; 2:27; 3:4; 3:6; 3:7; 14:3; 14:5; 14:10; 14:13; 14:13; 14:22
1 Corinthians
2:2; 2:2; 4:5; 5:3; 5:12; 5:13; 6; 6:2; 6:3; 7:37; 10:15; 10:29; 11:13; 11:31
2 Corinthians
2:1; 5:14
Colossians
2:16
2 Thessalonians
2:12
2 Timothy
4:1
Titus
3:12
Hebrews
10:30; 13:4
James
2:12; 4:11; 5:9
1 Peter
1:17; 2:23; 4:5; 4:6
Revelation
6:10; 11:18; 16:5; 18:8; 18:20; 19:2; 19:11; 20:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2919 matches the Greek κρίνω (krinō),
which occurs 114 times in 98 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 5:40–Rom 3:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:40 - If you are sued in court and your shirt is taken from you, give your coat, too.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:1 - “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:2 - For you will be treated as you treat others.[fn] The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:28 - Jesus replied, “I assure you that when the world is made new[fn] and the Son of Man[fn] sits upon his glorious throne, you who have been my followers will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:37 - “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:43 - Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.” “That’s right,” Jesus said.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:57 - “Why can’t you decide for yourselves what is right?
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:22 - “‘You wicked servant!’ the king roared. ‘Your own words condemn you. If you knew that I’m a hard man who takes what isn’t mine and harvests crops I didn’t plant,
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:30 - to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:17 - God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:18 - “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:22 - In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge,
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:30 - I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:24 - Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 - “Is it legal to convict a man before he is given a hearing?” he asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:15 - You judge me by human standards, but I do not judge anyone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:16 - And if I did, my judgment would be correct in every respect because I am not alone. The Father[fn] who sent me is with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:26 - I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but I won’t. For I say only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he is completely truthful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:50 - And though I have no wish to glorify myself, God is going to glorify me. He is the true judge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:47 - I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:48 - But all who reject me and my message will be judged on the day of judgment by the truth I have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:11 - Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:31 - “Then take him away and judge him by your own law,” Pilate told them.
“Only the Romans are permitted to execute someone,” the Jewish leaders replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:13 - For it is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God of all our ancestors—who has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate’s decision to release him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:19 - But Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:7 - ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and in the end they will come out and worship me here in this place.’[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:27 - The people in Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus as the one the prophets had spoken about. Instead, they condemned him, and in doing this they fulfilled the prophets’ words that are read every Sabbath.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 - Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, “It was necessary that we first preach the word of God to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we will offer it to the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:19 - “And so my judgment is that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:4 - Then they went from town to town, instructing the believers to follow the decisions made by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:15 - She was baptized along with other members of her household, and she asked us to be her guests. “If you agree that I am a true believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my home.” And she urged us until we agreed.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 - For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:16 - Paul had decided to sail on past Ephesus, for he didn’t want to spend any more time in the province of Asia. He was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if possible, in time for the Festival of Pentecost.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - “As for the Gentile believers, they should do what we already told them in a letter: They should abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:3 - But Paul said to him, “God will slap you, you corrupt hypocrite![fn] What kind of judge are you to break the law yourself by ordering me struck like that?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:6 - Paul realized that some members of the high council were Sadducees and some were Pharisees, so he shouted, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, as were my ancestors! And I am on trial because my hope is in the resurrection of the dead!”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:21 - except for the one time I shouted out, ‘I am on trial before you today because I believe in the resurrection of the dead!’”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:9 - Then Festus, wanting to please the Jews, asked him, “Are you willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there?”
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:10 - But Paul replied, “No! This is the official Roman court, so I ought to be tried right here. You know very well I am not guilty of harming the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:20 - I was at a loss to know how to investigate these things, so I asked him whether he would be willing to stand trial on these charges in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:25 - But in my opinion he has done nothing deserving death. However, since he appealed his case to the emperor, I have decided to send him to Rome.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:6 - Now I am on trial because of my hope in the fulfillment of God’s promise made to our ancestors.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:8 - Why does it seem incredible to any of you that God can raise the dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:1 - When the time came, we set sail for Italy. Paul and several other prisoners were placed in the custody of a Roman officer[fn] named Julius, a captain of the Imperial Regiment.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:1 - You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:3 - Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God’s judgment when you do the same things?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:12 - When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:16 - And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - In fact, uncircumcised Gentiles who keep God’s law will condemn you Jews who are circumcised and possess God’s law but don’t obey it.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:4 - Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,
“You will be proved right in what you say,
and you will win your case in court.”[fn]

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