Word

κατακρίνω

katakrínō · G2632 · Greek · 18 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to condemn, to render a verdict of guilt, condemnation

    To judge someone as definitely guilty and thus subject to punishment

    Examples

    Matthew 12:41 “The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

    Matthew 12:42 “The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

    Matthew 20:18 “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

18 occurrences in 10 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

12 occurrences in 6 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
καταδικάζω katadikázō · G2613 · to condemn, to render a verdict of guilt, condemnation
Both verbs belong to the forensic vocabulary of judicial condemnation, converging in the sense of rendering a verdict of guilt. The nuance between them — an emphasis on the sentencing aspect versus the pronouncement of guilt itself — is a genuine but minor difference of emphasis within the same shared meaning.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To condemn, to render a verdict of guilt, condemnation56.31
In John 8:11, after the woman caught in adultery is brought to Jesus, He tells her, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on do not sin any longer,” using this word for the act of pronouncing a verdict of guilt against someone.
Word family 27 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κρίνω krínō · G2919 · to come to a conclusion, to decide, to make up one’s mind · 114×κρίμα kríma · G2917 · to decide a legal question, to act as a judge, making a legal decision · 27×διακρίνω diakrínō · G1252 · to judge carefully, to evaluate carefully, to prefer · 19×κριτής kritḗs · G2923 · judge · 19×κατακρίνωkatakrínō · G2632ὑποκριτής hypokritḗs · G5273 · hypocrite, pretender, one who acts hypocritically · 17×ἀνακρίνω anakrínō · G350 · to examine carefully, to investigate, to study thoroughly · 16×ἀνυπόκριτος anypókritos · G505 · genuine, sincere · 6×ὑπόκρισις hypókrisis · G5272 · to pretend, to act hypocritically, pretense · 6×διάκρισις diákrisis · G1253 · to be able to judge, ability to make judgments, ability to decide · 3×εἰλικρίνεια eilikríneia · G1505 · sincerity, purity of motives · 3×κατάκριμα katákrima · G2631 · to condemn, to render a verdict of guilt, condemnation · 3×κριτήριον kritḗrion · G2922 · court, court of justice, lawsuit · 3×συγκρίνω synkrínō · G4793 · to judge the degree of similarity, to compare, to explain · 3×ἀκατάκριτος akatákritos · G178 · without trial · 2×εἰλικρινής eilikrinḗs · G1506 · sincere, without hidden motives · 2×κατάκρισις katákrisis · G2633 · to condemn, to render a verdict of guilt, condemnation · 2×ἀδιάκριτος adiákritos · G87 · impartial, free from prejudice · 1×ἀνάκρισις anákrisis · G351 · to investigate in court, to hear a case, to interrogate · 1×Ἀσύγκριτος Asýnkritos · G799 · incomparable; Asyncritus, a Christian · 1×αὐτοκατάκριτος autokatákritos · G843 · condemned by one’s own actions · 1×ἐγκρίνω enkrínō · G1469 · to classify · 1×ἐπικρίνω epikrínō · G1948 · to come to a conclusion, to decide, to make up one’s mind · 1×κριτικός kritikós · G2924 · able to judge, to have the capacity to judge · 1×πρόκριμα prókrima · G4299 · to show partiality, to decide unfairly, to judge prejudicially · 1×συνυποκρίνομαι synypokrínomai · G4942 · to pretend together, to join in hypocrisy · 1×ὑποκρίνομαι hypokrínomai · G5271 · to pretend, to act hypocritically, pretense · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future καακρίνω; 1 aorist κατεκρινα; passive, perfect κατακεκριμαι; 1 aorist κατεκρίθην;…
future καακρίνω; 1 aorist κατεκρινα; passive, perfect κατακεκριμαι; 1 aorist κατεκρίθην; 1 future κατακριθήσομαι; "to give judgment against (one (see κατά, III. 7)), to judge worthy of punishment, to condemn";
a. properly: Rom 8:34; τινα, Jn 8:10; Rom 2:1, where it is disting. from κρίνειν, as in 1 Cor 11:32; passive, Mt 27:3; Rom 14:23; τινα θανάτῳ, to adjudge one to death, condemn to death, Mt 20:18 (Tdf. εἰς θάνατον); Mk 10:33, (κεκρίμμενοι θανάτῳ, to eternal death, the Epistle of Barnabas 10, 5 [ET]); καταστροφή, 2 Pet 2:6 (WH omits; Tr marginal reading brackets καταστροφή) (the Greeks say κατακρίνειν τινα θανάτου or θάνατον; cf. Winers Grammar, 210 (197f); Buttmann, § 132, 16; Grimm on Wis. 2:20); with the accusative and infinitive, τινα ἔνοχον εἶναι θανάτου, Mk 14:64; simply, of God condemning one to eternal misery: passive, Mk 16:16; 1 Cor 11:32; Jas 5:9 Rec. b. improperly, i. e. by one's good example to render another's wickedness the more evident and censurable: Mt 12:41; Lk 11:31; Heb 11:7. In a peculiar use of the word, occasioned by the employment of the term κατάκριμα (in verse 1), Paul says, Rom 8:3, ὁ Θεός κατέκρινε τήν ἁμαρτίαν ἐν τῇ σαρκί, i. e. through his Son, who partook of human nature but was without sin, God deprived sin (which is the ground of the κατάκριμα) of its power in human nature (looked at in the general), broke its deadly sway (just as the condemnation and punishment of wicked men puts an end to their power to injure or do harm). ((From Pindar and Herodotus down.))

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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