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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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 22 times in 21 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:10 - and lo, there was a man having the hand withered, and they questioned him, saying, 'Is it lawful to heal on the sabbaths?' that they might accuse him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:12 - And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:2 - and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:3 - And the chief priests were accusing him of many things, but he answered nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:54 - laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:2 - and began to accuse him, saying, 'This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:10 - And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:14 - said unto them, 'Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:45 - 'Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:6 - and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:30 - and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:2 - and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, 'Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:8 - having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:13 - nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:19 - whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:5 - 'Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:11 - for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:16 - unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:19 - and the Jews having spoken against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:15 - who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:10 - And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, 'Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;
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