κριτήριον
tribunal
‘tribunal’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G2922 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of 1 Corinthians. 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.
1 Corinthians
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.
“tribunal” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κριτηριον (kritḗrion). With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. Scripture first uses it in 1 Corinthians 6:2. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2922 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 67%
- James 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
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 1×, Judgment seats 1×, Judgments 1×
- American Standard Version: Judge 1×, Judgment-seats 1×, Ye have ezekiel to judge 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cases 1×, Court 1×, Settle 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cases 1×, Court 1×, Legal disputes 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2922 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2922 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2922 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2922 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- the instrument or means of trying or judging anything
- the place where judgment is given
- the matter judged, thing to be decided, suit, case
Word origin
Derived from κριτης (kritḗs) (G2923) — judge.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G2923 ; a rule of judging (criterion) that is (by implication) a tribunal : - to judge judgment (seat).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2922 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κριτήρια kritḗria | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 6:4 | 2 |
| κριτηρίων kritēríōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 6:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2922, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κριτηριον appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 4 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:6 κριτήριον
- Judges 5:10 κριτήριον
- 1 Kings 7:44 κριτήριον
- Daniel 7:10 κριτήριον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2922) 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.
- Exodus 21:6 κριτήριον then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
- Judges 5:10 κριτήριον Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.
- 1 Kings 7:44 κριτήριον and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
- Daniel 7:10 κριτήριον A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2922) 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.
