κατηγορέω, 
κατηγόρω; imperfect 
κατηγόρουν; future 
κατηγορήσω; 1 aorist 
κατηγόρησα; present passive 
κατηγοροῦμαι; (
κατά and 
ἀγορεύω, properly, to speak against (cf. 
κατά, III. 7) in court, in the assembly of the people), 
to accuse; 
a. before a judge: absolutely (to make accusation), 
Acts 24:2, 
19; 
τίνος, to accuse one, 
Matthew 12:10; 
Mark 3:2; 
Luke 6:7 T Tr text 
WH; 
Luke 11:54 R L Tr brackets; 
Luke 23:2, 
10; 
John 8:6; 
Acts 25:5; 
Acts 28:19; with the addition of a genitive of the thing of which one is accused (as 
Demosthenes 515 at the end): 
Acts 24:8; 
Acts 25:11 (unless it be thought preferable to regard the relative in these instances as in the genitive by attraction (so 
Buttmann, § 132, 16 at the end), since the common construction in Greek authors is 
κατηγόρουν τί τίνος, cf. 
Matthiae, § 370 Anm. 2, p. 849f, and § 378, p. 859; cf. 
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 9a.); 
τίνος περί τίνος, 
Acts 24:13 (
Thucydides 8, 85; 
Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 2); with the genitive of person and accusative of the thing, 
Mark 15:3 (unless 
πολλά should be taken adverbially: 
much, vehemently); 
πόσα, 
Mark 15:4 L T Tr WH (
Euripides, Or. 28); followed by 
κατά with the genitive of person, 
Luke 23:14 (
Xenophon, Hell. 1, 7, 9 (cf. 
Winers Grammar, § 28, 1; p. 431 (402); 
Buttmann, § 132, 16)); passive 
to be accused (as 2 Macc. 10:13; 
Xenophon, Hell. 3, 5, 25; cf. 
Buttmann, § 134, 4): 
ὑπό τίνος, 
Matthew 27:12; 
Acts 22:30 L T Tr WH for 
Rec. παρά (
τό τί κτλ., 
why (
A. V. wherefore) 
he was accused; unless it is to be explained, 
what accusation was brought forward etc.); 
ὁ κατηγορούμενος, 
Acts 25:16. 
b. of an extra-judicial accusation (
Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 4): absolutely, 
Romans 2:15; 
τίνος, 
John 5:45 (cf. 
Buttmann, 295 (254)); 
Revelation 12:10 R G Tr: solecistically 
τινα, 
Revelation 12:10 L T WH (cf. 
Buttmann, § 132, 16). 
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