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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 BoxDeu 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18 - Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, according to thy tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:9 - and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before Jehovah thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:17 - then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - Assemble unto 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 BoxJdg 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 - And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that despoiled them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - Jehovah therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:11 - and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:22 - Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:10 - and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will subdue all thine enemies. Moreover I tell thee that Jehovah will build thee a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:1 - And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that served the king by course, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, unto Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:5 - And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:6 - and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and he is with you in the judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made 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 Box2Ch 34:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:13 - Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:25 - And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye him that knoweth them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 -
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
He covereth the faces of the judges thereof:
If it be not he, who then is it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 -
He leadeth counsellors away stripped,
And judges maketh he fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8 -
Will ye show partiality to him?
Will ye contend for God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11 -
God is a righteous judge,
Yea, a God that hath indignation every day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:6 -
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness;
For God is judge himself.
[Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:5 -
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
Is God in his holy habitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:7 -
But God is the judge:
He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 -
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock;
And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 BoxIsa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:18 - And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:7 - I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:12 - And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:3 - and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:3 - Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 - Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.
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