κριτήριον
kritḗrion · G2922 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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court, court of justice
A court of justice for determining guilt or innocence
ExamplesJames 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?
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lawsuit, case, legal action
Legal action taken in a court of law against someone
Examples1 Corinthians 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest law courts?
1 Corinthians 6:4 So if you have law courts dealing with matters of this life, do you appoint them as judges who are of no account in the church?
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐλάχιστοςleast, very small 1
- βιωτικόςof this life 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔχωto have 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Court, court of justice56.1
- κριτήριον names a court or tribunal. 1 Corinthians 6:2 asks the Corinthians, “do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to form the smallest law courts?” the κριτηρίων naming these lesser courts the saints ought to be competent to form.
- Lawsuit, case, legal action56.2
- The same word can also name a legal case or lawsuit itself. James 2:6 rebukes those who dishonor the poor, asking, “Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court?” the κριτήρια naming these courts the rich drag believers into.
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κριτηρίου, τό (from κριτηρ, equivalent to κριτής); 1. properly, the instrument or means…
1. properly, the instrument or means of trying or judging anything; the rule by which one judges (Plato, Plutarch, others).
2. the place where judgment is given; the tribunal of a judge; a bench of judges: plural, 1 Cor 6:2; Jas 2:6 (the Sept.; Plato, Polybius, Plutarch, others).
3. in an exceptional usage, the matter judged, thing to be decided, suit, case: plural 1 Cor 6:4 (this sense is denied by many; cf. e. g. Meyer on 1 Cor 6:2).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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