κρίσις
judgment
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 verses where G2920 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
- Matthew 5:21 κρίσει n dat sg fem "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'
- Matthew 5:22 κρίσει n dat sg fem But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
- Matthew 12:41 κρίσει n dat sg fem The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
- Matthew 12:42 κρίσει n dat sg fem The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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.
The Greek noun κρισις centers on the idea of “judgment.” Lexicons map it across 5 senses. It turns up in 46 verses across 12 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (26%), then John and Luke. First canonically at Matthew 5:21, it enters the text early. Dig into 46-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2920 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 →
- 46
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 46 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #326
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 326 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 46 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 46 distinct verses.
- Gospels 27 verses · 59%
- Johannine 16 verses · 35%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 10 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 11%
- Revelation 4 verses · 9%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 4%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 4%
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: Judgment 38×, Damnation 3×, Accusation 2×
- American Standard Version: Judgment 41×, Judgments 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Judgment 35×, Justice 5×, Judgments 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Judgment 40×, Justice 5×, Judgments 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2920 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2920 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G2920 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2920 across 50 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 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.
- a separating, sundering, separation
- selection
- judgment
- the college of judges (a tribunal of seven men in the several cities of Palestine…
- right, justice
Word origin
Origin: perhaps a primitive word
(Subjectively or objectively for or against); by extension a tribunal ; by implication justice (specifically divine law ): - accusation condemnation damnation judgment.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2920 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κρίσεως kríseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 10:15 | 15 |
| κρίσιν krísin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 12:18 | 15 |
| κρίσις krísis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 3:19 | 8 |
| κρίσει krísei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:21 | 7 |
| κρίσεις kríseis | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 16:7 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κρισις appears 213 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 196 verses in 27 books.
- 213
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 196
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 14:7 κρίσις
- Exodus 6:6 κρίσις
- Leviticus 19:15 κρίσις
- Numbers 27:5 κρίσις
- Deuteronomy 1:17 κρίσις
- Joshua 20:3 κρίσις
- Judges 4:5 κρίσις
- 1 Samuel 24:16 κρίσις
- 2 Samuel 15:2 κρίσις
- 2 Kings 1:7 κρίσις
- 1 Chronicles 6:17 κρίσις
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 κρίσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2920) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 196. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 14:7 κρίσις They returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
- Genesis 18:19 κρίσις For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
- Genesis 18:25 κρίσις Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Genesis 19:9 κρίσις They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Exodus 6:6 κρίσις Therefore tell the children of Israel, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
- Exodus 15:25 κρίσις Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
- Exodus 18:15 κρίσις Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
- Exodus 22:8 κρίσις If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
- Exodus 23:2 κρίσις You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice;
- Exodus 23:3 κρίσις neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
- Exodus 23:6 κρίσις "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
- Exodus 24:14 κρίσις He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
- Exodus 28:15 κρίσις "You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shall you make it.
- Exodus 28:29 κρίσις Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
- Exodus 28:30 κρίσις You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
- Leviticus 19:15 κρίσις "'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
- Leviticus 19:35 κρίσις "'You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
- Leviticus 25:18 κρίσις "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
- Numbers 27:5 κρίσις Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
- Numbers 27:11 κρίσις If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 27:21 κρίσις He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
- Numbers 35:12 κρίσις The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
- Deuteronomy 1:17 κρίσις You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
- Deuteronomy 4:5 κρίσις Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:14 κρίσις Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 10:18 κρίσις He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 11:1 κρίσις Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
- Deuteronomy 11:32 κρίσις You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
- Deuteronomy 12:1 κρίσις These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
- Deuteronomy 16:18 κρίσις Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Deuteronomy 16:19 κρίσις You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
- Deuteronomy 17:8 κρίσις If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
- Deuteronomy 17:9 κρίσις and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
- Deuteronomy 17:11 κρίσις according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
- Deuteronomy 18:3 κρίσις This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 κρίσις lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
- Deuteronomy 24:17 κρίσις You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
- Deuteronomy 25:1 κρίσις If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
- Deuteronomy 27:19 κρίσις Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 30:10 κρίσις if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 κρίσις in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 κρίσις The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- Deuteronomy 33:21 κρίσις He provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver's portion reserved; He came [with] the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Yahweh, His ordinances with Israel.
- Joshua 20:3 κρίσις that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
- Joshua 20:6 κρίσις He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.
- Joshua 24:25 κρίσις So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
- Judges 4:5 κρίσις She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
- Judges 13:12 κρίσις Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?
- Judges 18:7 κρίσις Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
- 1 Samuel 24:16 κρίσις It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2920) 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.
