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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)
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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 179 times in 166 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 15:14–1Ch 16:33)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - “But I will also judge the nation to whom they are enslaved, and afterward they will come out with [fn]many possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your [fn]embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became [fn]contemptible in her [fn]sight. May Yahweh judge between [fn]you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:25 - “Far be it from You to do [fn]such a thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Step aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and stepped up to break the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they dug another well, and they contended over it also, so he called it [fn]Sitnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, “God has [fn]rendered justice to me and has indeed listened to my voice and has given me a son.” Therefore she named him [fn]Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - “The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the dread of his father Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 -

“Dan shall render justice to his people,

As one of the tribes of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:21 - And they said to them, “May Yahweh look upon you and judge, for you have made [fn]us a foul smell in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:13 -

Now it happened the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - “And they will judge the people at all times. And it will be that every major matter they will bring to you, but every minor matter they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - And they judged the people at all times; the difficult matter they would bring to Moses, but every minor matter they themselves would judge.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:15 -

‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:24 - then the congregation shall judge between the [fn]slayer and the blood avenger according to these legal judgments.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 -

“Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the sojourner who is with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear [fn]man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18 -

“You shall appoint for yourself judges and officers in all your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:1 -

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court for judgment, and [fn]the judges judge their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:36 -

“For Yahweh will render justice to His people,

And will have compassion on His slaves,

When He sees that their [fn]strength is gone,

And there is none remaining, bond or free.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to war, and Yahweh gave Cushan-rishathaim king of [fn]Mesopotamia into his hand. So his hand was strong against Cushan-rishathaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was quiet for eighty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 -

Now Deborah, a [fn]prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she used to [fn]sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 -

Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they strongly contended with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 -

After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel twenty-two years.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me evil by making war against me; may Yahweh, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:7 -

And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:8 -

Then Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel after him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:9 - And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he [fn]gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:11 -

Then Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel after him; and he judged Israel ten years.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:13 -

Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel after him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:14 - And he had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:20 - And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and all his father’s household came down, carried him, brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “And it will be when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in the battle, [fn]and you did not give your daughters to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

Now it happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the fields of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 -

“Those who contend with Yahweh will be dismayed;

Against them He will thunder in the heavens;

Yahweh will render justice to the ends of the earth,

And He will give strength to His king,

And He will exalt the [fn]horn of His anointed.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it happened that when he mentioned the ark of God, [fn]Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for the man was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - “Therefore Yahweh be judge and execute justice between [fn]you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and execute justice for me to escape from your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 -

Then David heard that Nabal was dead, so he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. Yahweh has also returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent [fn]a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:19 -

Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and proclaim the good news to the king that Yahweh has judged to save him from the hand of his enemies.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:31 -

Behold, the Cushite arrived, and the Cushite said, “Let my lord the king receive good news, for Yahweh has judged to save you this day from the hand of all those who rose up against you.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:9 - And it happened that all the people were disputing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the [fn]hand of our enemies and provided us escape from the [fn]hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:9 - “So give Your slave a listening heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to [fn]judge this glorious people of Yours?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28 - Then all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had [fn]handed down, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:7 -

And he made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then listen in heaven and act and judge Your slaves, condemning the wicked by [fn]bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by [fn]bringing him reward according to his righteousness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - For such a Passover had not been celebrated from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and of the kings of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:33 -

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh;

For He is coming to judge the earth.


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