καταδικάζω
to condemn
‘to condemn’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 2 times (33%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2613 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
James 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
καταδικαζω — transliterated katadikázō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to condemn.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. More than a third of its appearances fall in Matthew. It first appears in Matthew 12:7. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2613 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be condemned 1×, Condemn 1×, Have condemned 1×
- American Standard Version: Be condemned 1×, Condemn 1×, Have condemned 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Condemn 1×, Judgment 1×, You have condemned 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be condemned 1×, Condemn 1×, Do 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2613 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2613 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2613 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2613 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to give judgment against (one), to pronounce guilty
- to condemn
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2613 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατεδικάσατε katedikásate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 12:7 | 2 |
| καταδίκην katadíkēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 25:15 | 1 |
| καταδικάζετε katadikázete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 6:37 | 1 |
| καταδικασθήσῃ katadikasthḗsē | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 12:37 | 1 |
| καταδικασθῆτε katadikasthē̂te | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 6:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2613, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καταδικαζω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 34:29 καταδικάζω
- Psalms 36:33 καταδικάζω
- Lamentations 3:36 καταδικάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2613) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 34:29 καταδικάζω When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man:
- Psalms 36:33 καταδικάζω
- Psalms 93:21 καταδικάζω
- Psalms 108:7 καταδικάζω God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
- Lamentations 3:36 καταδικάζω To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2613) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
