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Lexicon :: Strong's G2923 - kritēs

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κριτής
Transliteration
kritēs (Key)
Pronunciation
kree-tace'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:942,469

Strong’s Definitions

κριτής kritḗs, kree-tace'; from G2919; a judge (genitive case or specially):—judge.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G2923 in the following manner: judge (15x), Judge (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G2923 in the following manner: judge (15x), Judge (2x).

  1. one who passes or arrogates to himself, judgment on anything

    1. an arbiter

    2. of a Roman procurator administering justice

    3. of God passing judgment on men

    4. of the leaders or rulers of the Israelites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κριτής kritḗs, kree-tace'; from G2919; a judge (genitive case or specially):—judge.
STRONGS G2923:
κριτής, κριτοῦ, ὁ (κρίνω) (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down), the Sept. chiefly for שֹׁפֵט; a judge;
1. universally, one who passes, or arrogates to himself, judgment on anything: with the genitive of the object, James 4:11; with the genitive of quality (see διαλογισμός, 1), James 2:4; in a forensic sense, of the one who tries and decides a case (cf. δικαστής, at the end): Matthew 5:25; Luke 12:14 L T Tr WH, 58; (xviii. 2); with the genitive of quality (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 10; Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3b.), τῆς ἀδικίας, Luke 18:6; with the genitive of the object (a thing), an arbiter, Acts 18:15; of a Roman procurator administering justice, Acts 24:10; of God passing judgment on the character and deeds of men, and rewarding accordingly, Hebrews 12:23; James 4:12; also of Christ returning to sit in judgment, Acts 10:42; 2 Timothy 4:8; James 5:9; in a peculiar sense, of a person whose conduct is made the standard for judging another and convicting him of wrong: with the genitive of the object (a person), Matthew 12:27; Luke 11:19.
2. like the Hebrew שֹׁפֵט, of the leaders or rulers of the Israelites: Acts 13:20 (Judges 2:16, 18; Ruth 1:1; Sir. 10:1f, 24, etc.).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges
2:16; 2:18
Ruth
1:1
Matthew
5:25; 12:27
Luke
11:19; 12:14; 18:6
Acts
10:42; 13:20; 18:15; 24:10
2 Timothy
4:8
Hebrews
12:23
James
2:4; 4:11; 4:12; 5:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2923 matches the Greek κριτής (kritēs),
which occurs 51 times in 49 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18 - “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9 - And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17 - then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - “You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes,[fn] your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 - Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:11 - from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said,[fn] “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men and all the seasoned warriors.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:2 - Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:5 - He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:6 - and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
he covers the faces of its judges—
if it is not he, who then is it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - He leads counselors away stripped,
and judges he makes fools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8 - Will you show partiality toward him?
Will you plead the case for God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11 - God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6 - The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge! Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - Father of the fatherless and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:7 - but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - When their judges are thrown over the cliff,[fn]
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:11 - Kings of the earth and all peoples,
princes and all rulers of the earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And I will restore your judges as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22 - For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver;
the LORD is our king; he will save us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD,
the praises of the LORD,
according to all that the LORD has granted us,
and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us,[fn] by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
and will kill all its princes[fn] with him,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
the prince and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 - Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.
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