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Lexicon :: Strong's G2723 - katēgoreō

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κατηγορέω
Transliteration
katēgoreō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ay-gor-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 3:637,422

Strong’s Definitions

κατηγορέω katēgoréō, kat-ay-gor-eh'-o; from G2725; to be a plaintiff, i.e. to charge with some offence:—accuse, object.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's G2723 in the following manner: accuse (21x), object (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's G2723 in the following manner: accuse (21x), object (1x).

  1. to accuse

    1. before a judge: to make an accusation

    2. of an extra-judicial accusation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατηγορέω katēgoréō, kat-ay-gor-eh'-o; from G2725; to be a plaintiff, i.e. to charge with some offence:—accuse, object.
STRONGS G2723:
κατηγορέω, κατηγόρω; imperfect κατηγόρουν; future κατηγορήσω; 1 aorist κατηγόρησα; present passive κατηγοροῦμαι; (κατά and ἀγορεύω, properly, to speak against (cf. κατά, III. 7) in court, in the assembly of the people), to accuse;
a. before a judge: absolutely (to make accusation), Acts 24:2, 19; τίνος, to accuse one, Matthew 12:10; Mark 3:2; Luke 6:7 T Tr text WH; Luke 11:54 R L Tr brackets; Luke 23:2, 10; John 8:6; Acts 25:5; Acts 28:19; with the addition of a genitive of the thing of which one is accused (as Demosthenes 515 at the end): Acts 24:8; Acts 25:11 (unless it be thought preferable to regard the relative in these instances as in the genitive by attraction (so Buttmann, § 132, 16 at the end), since the common construction in Greek authors is κατηγόρουν τί τίνος, cf. Matthiae, § 370 Anm. 2, p. 849f, and § 378, p. 859; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 9a.); τίνος περί τίνος, Acts 24:13 (Thucydides 8, 85; Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 2); with the genitive of person and accusative of the thing, Mark 15:3 (unless πολλά should be taken adverbially: much, vehemently); πόσα, Mark 15:4 L T Tr WH (Euripides, Or. 28); followed by κατά with the genitive of person, Luke 23:14 (Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 9 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 28, 1; p. 431 (402); Buttmann, § 132, 16)); passive to be accused (as 2 Macc. 10:13; Xenophon, Hell. 3, 5, 25; cf. Buttmann, § 134, 4): ὑπό τίνος, Matthew 27:12; Acts 22:30 L T Tr WH for Rec. παρά (τό τί κτλ., why (A. V. wherefore) he was accused; unless it is to be explained, what accusation was brought forward etc.); ὁ κατηγορούμενος, Acts 25:16.
b. of an extra-judicial accusation (Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 4): absolutely, Romans 2:15; τίνος, John 5:45 (cf. Buttmann, 295 (254)); Revelation 12:10 R G Tr: solecistically τινα, Revelation 12:10 L T WH (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 16).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
12:10; 27:12
Mark
3:2; 15:3; 15:4
Luke
6:7; 11:54; 23:2; 23:10; 23:14
John
5:45; 8:6
Acts
22:30; 24:2; 24:8; 24:13; 24:19; 25:5; 25:11; 25:16; 28:19
Romans
2:15
Revelation
12:10; 12:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2723 matches the Greek κατηγορέω (katēgoreō),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in 'Act' in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:30 - On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused G2723 of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:2 - And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse G2723 him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:8 - Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse G2723 him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:13 - Neither can they prove the things whereof they G2723 ➔ now accuse G2723 me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:19 - Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, G2723 if they had ought against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:5 - Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse G2723 this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:11 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse G2723 me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:16 - To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused G2723 have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:19 - But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse G2723 ➔ my nation of. G2723
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