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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 knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - “Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger 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 gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9 - “And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge there in those days, and inquire of them; they shall pronounce upon you the sentence of judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - “Now the man who acts presumptuously and will not heed the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall put away the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17 - “then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - “And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,

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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 from the slain man to the surrounding cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - “then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - “All of you stand today before the LORD your God: your leaders and your tribes and 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 - “Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 - Nevertheless, the LORD raised up judges who delivered 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 would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of 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 them and harassed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell 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 - “Therefore let the LORD be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:11 - “since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also the LORD tells you that He will make you a house.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - “since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. Also I will subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that the LORD will build you a house.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - Of these, twenty-four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the LORD, six thousand 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 leaders of Israel: the officers of the tribes and the captains of the divisions who served the king, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 1:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:5 - Then he set judges in the land throughout 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, “Take heed to what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by companies, according to the number on their roll as prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - were over the burden bearers and were overseers of all who did work in any kind of service. And some of the Levites were scribes, officers, and gatekeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach those who do not know them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Please, let the leaders of our entire assembly stand; and let all those in our cities who have taken pagan wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of their cities, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

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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 else could it be?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - He leads counselors away plundered,
And makes fools of the 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 just judge,
And God is angry with the wicked every day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6 - Let 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 - A father of the fatherless, a defender of 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 overthrown by the sides of the cliff,
And they hear my words, for they are sweet.

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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 - 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 will wait, that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on 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 mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD
And the praises of the LORD,
According to all that the LORD has bestowed on us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,
According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - “And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
None among them calls upon Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - And I will cut off the judge from its midst,
And slay all its princes with him,”
Says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - That they may successfully do evil with both hands—
The prince asks for gifts,
The judge seeks a bribe,
And the great man utters his evil desire;
So they scheme together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 - Why do You show me iniquity,
And cause me to see trouble?
For plundering and violence are before me;
There is strife, and contention arises.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.
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