Strong's #2919: krino (pronounced 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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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krinō
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
5a) to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong
5a1) to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one' s case may be examined and judgment passed upon it
5b) to pronounce judgment, to subject to censure
5b1) 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
6a) 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
7a) to dispute
7b) in a forensic sense
7b1) to go to law, have suit at law
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: perhaps a primitive word
Citing in TDNT: 3:921, 469
Usage:
This word is used 114 times:
James 4:12: "art thou that judgest another?"
1 Peter 1:17: "if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work,"
1 Peter 2:23: "he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:"
1 Peter 4:5: "account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead."
1 Peter 4:6: "also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh,"
Revelation 6:10: "holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our"
Revelation 11:18: "time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy"
Revelation 16:5: "and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
Revelation 18:8: "for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
Revelation 18:20: "prophets; for God hath avenged you on her."
Revelation 19:2: "are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which"
Revelation 19:11: "and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."
Revelation 20:12: "and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the"
Revelation 20:13: "which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works."
