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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 [fn]appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and [fn]of hundreds, [fn]of fifties and [fn]of tens, and officers for your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - “Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your [fn]fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his [fn]fellow countryman, 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 for yourself judges and officers in all your [fn]towns which 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 - “So you shall come to the Levitical priest or the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall inquire of them and they will declare to you the verdict in the case.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - “The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17 - then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - “The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has [fn]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 go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - then it shall be if the wicked man [fn]deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his [fn]guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - “You stand today, all of you, before the LORD your God: your chiefs, your tribes, your elders and your officers, even 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 hearing and call the heavens and the 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 [fn]who delivered them from the hands 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 played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - When the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered 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 oppressed and afflicted them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now it came about in the days when the judges [fn]governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - “The LORD therefore be judge and decide between [fn]you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and [fn]deliver me from your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:11 - even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. The LORD also declares to you that the LORD will make a house for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - Moreover, Absalom would say, “Oh that one would appoint me judge in the land, then every man who has any suit or cause could come to me and I would give him justice.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Surely 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I tell you that the LORD will build a house for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - Of these, 24,000 were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD; and 6,000 were officers and judges,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the commanders of the divisions that served the king, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the overseers of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, with the officials and the mighty men, even all the valiant men.

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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 and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

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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 - He said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD who is with you [fn]when you render judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover, Uzziah had an army ready for battle, which [fn]entered combat by divisions according to the number of their muster, [fn]prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the official, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s officers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - They were also over the burden bearers, and supervised all the workmen from job to job; 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 - “You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and you may teach anyone who is ignorant of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Let our leaders [fn]represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce anger of our God on account of 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, then who is it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - “He makes counselors walk [fn]barefoot
And makes fools of judges.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8 - “Will you show partiality for Him?
Will you contend 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 has indignation every day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6 - And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. [fn]Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 - A father of the fatherless and a judge [fn]for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:7 - But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock,
And they 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 judges of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - “Then I will restore your judges as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning;
After that you will be called the city of righteousness,
A faithful city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - Therefore the LORD [fn]longs to be gracious to you,
And therefore He [fn]waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the LORD is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who [fn]long 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 shall make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, the praises of the LORD,
According to all that the LORD has granted us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has granted them according to His compassion
And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - “Thus He has confirmed His words which He had spoken against us and against our [fn]rulers who ruled us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - All of them are hot like an oven,
And they consume their rulers;
All their kings have fallen.
None of them calls on Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - “I will also cut off the [fn]judge from her midst
And slay all her princes with him,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So 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 cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;
Strife exists and contention arises.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her princes within her are roaring lions,
Her judges are wolves at evening;
They leave nothing for the morning.
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