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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)
TR
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 114 times in 98 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 5:40–Rom 3:4)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:40 -

“As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:1 -

“Do not judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:2 -

“For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others, and you will be measured by the same measure you use.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:28 -

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:37 -

“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:43 -

Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”

“You have judged correctly,” he told him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:57 -

“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:22 -

“He told him, ‘I will condemn you by what you have said, you evil servant! If you knew I was a harsh man, collecting what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow,

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:30 -

“so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:17 -

“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:18 -

“Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:22 -

“The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:30 -

“I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:24 -

“Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:51 -

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:15 -

“You judge by human standards.[fn] I judge no one.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:16 -

“And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:26 -

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him ​— ​these things I tell the world.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:50 -

“I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and judges.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:47 -

“If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:48 -

“The one who rejects me and doesn’t receive my sayings has this as his judge:[fn] The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:11 -

“and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:31 -

Pilate told them, “You take him and judge him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:13 -

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:19 -

Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:7 -

“I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:27 -

“Since the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him or the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they have fulfilled their words by condemning him.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 -

Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:19 -

“Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those among the Gentiles who turn to God,

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:4 -

As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:15 -

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:31 -

“because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:16 -

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, for the day of Pentecost.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 -

“With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that[fn] they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:3 -

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! You are sitting there judging me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law are you ordering me to be struck? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:6 -

When Paul realized that one part of them were Sadducees and the other part were Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am being judged because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:21 -

“other than this one statement I shouted while standing among them, ‘Today I am on trial before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:9 -

But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried before me there on these charges? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:10 -

Paul replied, “I am standing at Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as even you yourself know very well.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:20 -

“Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding these matters.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:25 -

“I found that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:6 -

“And now I stand on trial because of the hope in what God promised to our ancestors,

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:8 -

“Why do any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:1 -

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:1 -

Therefore, every one of you[fn] who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:3 -

Do you think ​— ​anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same ​— ​that you will escape God’s judgment?

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:12 -

For all who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under[fn] the law will be judged by the law.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:16 -

on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 -

A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who keeps the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 3:4 -

Absolutely not! Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That you may be justified in your words

and triumph when you judge.


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