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κρίνω

to judge

‘to judge’ is one of 8 main senses fuller range ↓

G2919 Strong's Greek
krínō Transliteration
/kree'-no/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 114 appearances

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About this entry

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κρινω (krínō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to judge.” Ranging over 8 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The Greek New Testament uses it across 98 verses — moderately common. It first appears in Matthew 5:40. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ειλικρινης, κριμα and κριτης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
avenge
Modern gloss
to judge
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2919 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 →

98
distinct verses
The word appears in 98 distinct verses.
15 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:40
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:40.
Revelation 20:13
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:13.
#145
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 145 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 98 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 23 · 23%
  • Acts 21 · 21%
  • Pauline Epistles 35 · 36%
  • General Epistles 10 · 10%
  • Revelation 9 · 9%

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 98 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 35 verses · 36%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 26 verses · 27%
  • Gospels 23 verses · 23%
  • Johannine 23 verses · 23%
  • Revelation 9 verses · 9%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 8 verses · 8%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 2%

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: Judge 31×, Judgeth 7×, Be judged 5×
  • American Standard Version: Judge 32×, Be judged 7×, Judged 7×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Judge 25×, Judges 6×, Will judge 6×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Judge 28×, Judging 15×, Be judged 9×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2919 across 130 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Judge” 31×
  • “Judgeth” 7×
  • “Be judged” 5×
  • “Judged” 5×
  • “Shall judge” 4×
  • “Judgest” 3×
  • “Am called in question” 2×
  • “Esteemeth” 2×
  • “Have judged” 2×
  • “I determined” 2×
  • “I have determined” 2×
  • “Is” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 57 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2919 across 127 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Judge” 32×
  • “Be judged” 7×
  • “Judged” 7×
  • “Judgeth” 6×
  • “Judgest” 5×
  • “Shall judge” 4×
  • “I determined” 3×
  • “Am called in question” 2×
  • “Esteemeth” 2×
  • “Go to law” 2×
  • “Had determined” 2×
  • “Hath been judged” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 47 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2919 across 114 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Judge” 25×
  • “Judges” 6×
  • “Will judge” 6×
  • “Judging” 4×
  • “You judge” 4×
  • “Am on trial” 2×
  • “Had decided” 2×
  • “Pass judgment” 2×
  • “You will be judged” 2×
  • “You will not be judged” 2×

Plus 59 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2919 across 140 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Judge” 28×
  • “Judging” 15×
  • “Be judged” 9×
  • “Do” 8×
  • “Will judge” 7×
  • “Judges” 5×
  • “You judge” 4×
  • “Being judged” 3×
  • “I decided” 3×
  • “You have judged” 3×
  • “Am being judged” 2×
  • “Do you” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 39 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


8 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 8 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.

  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 pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong
  6. to pronounce judgment, to subject to censure
  7. to preside over with the power of giving judicial decisions…
  8. to contend together, of warriors and combatants

Word origin

Origin: perhaps a primitive word

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 18:21,5

Properly to distinguish that is 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.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 48 distinct written forms G2919 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
κρίνετε krínete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:2 9
κρίνων krínōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine John 8:50 9
κρίνω krínō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 5:30 7
κρινεῖ krineî Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 12:48 7
κρίνατε krínate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural John 7:24 6
κρίνει krínei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 5:22 6
κρίνεται krínetai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 3:18 5
κρίνειν krínein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive John 8:26 4
κρίνεις kríneis Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Romans 2:1 4
κρίνεσθαι krínesthai Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive Acts 25:10 4
κρίνομαι krínomai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 23:6 3
κριθῆναι krithē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Matthew 5:40 3
κριθῆτε krithē̂te Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:1 3
κέκρικα kékrika Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 5:3 2
κέκριται kékritai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 3:18 2
κρίναντες krínantes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 13:27 2
κρίνοντα krínonta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine John 12:48 2
κρίνοντες krínontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 19:28 2
κρινέτω krinétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 14:3 2
ἐκρίθησαν ekríthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 20:12 2
ἔκρινας ékrinas Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 7:43 2
ἔκρινεν ékrinen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 18:20 2
κέκρικεν kékriken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 7:37 1
κεκρίκατέ kekríkaté Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Acts 16:15 1
κεκρίκει kekríkei Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 20:16 1
κεκριμένα kekriména Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Acts 16:4 1
κρίναντας krínantas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 Corinthians 5:15 1
κρίναντος krínantos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 3:13 1
κρίνας krínas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Revelation 18:8 1
κρίνεσθαί krínesthaí Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive Romans 3:4 1
κρίνοντι krínonti Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 Peter 2:23 1
κρίνωμεν krínōmen Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Romans 14:13 1
κρίνῃ krínē Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular John 3:17 1
κριθήσεσθε krithḗsesthe Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 7:2 1
κριθήσονται krithḗsontai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Romans 2:12 1
κριθῶσι krithō̂si Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 1 Peter 4:6 1
κριθῶσιν krithō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural 2 Thessalonians 2:12 1
κρινοῦμεν krinoûmen Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 6:3 1
κρινοῦσιν krinoûsin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 6:2 1
κρινόμενοι krinómenoi Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Corinthians 11:32 1
κρινόμενος krinómenos Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 26:6 1
κρινῶ krinō̂ Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 7:7 1
κρῖναι krînai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 Peter 4:5 1
ἐκρίθη ekríthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 27:1 1
ἐκρινόμεθα ekrinómetha Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 11:31 1
ἔκρινά ékriná Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 Corinthians 2:2 1
ἔκρινα ékrina Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 25:25 1
Ἔκρινα Ékrina Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 Corinthians 2:1 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2919, 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.

Derived from this word

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word κρινω appears 184 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 171 verses in 26 books.

184
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
171
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
26 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 26 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2919) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 171. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2919) 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.

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