ἀνακρίνω
to examine
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (19%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (19%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (19%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (6%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G350 appears — 14 distinct verses across 3 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 4:9 ἀνακρινόμεθα pres pass ind 1pl if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,
- Acts 12:19 ἀνακρίνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc When Herod had sought for him, and didn't find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
- Acts 17:11 ἀνακρίνοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
- Acts 24:8 ἀνακρίνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."
- Acts 28:18 ἀνακρίναντές aor act ptcp nom pl masc who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
1 Corinthians 8 verses
- 1 Corinthians 2:14 ἀνακρίνεται pres pass ind 3sg Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Corinthians 2:15 ἀνακρίνει ἀνακρίνεται pres act ind 3sg pres pass ind 3sg But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
- 1 Corinthians 4:3 ἀνακριθῶ ἀνακρίνω aor pass subj 1sg pres act ind 1sg But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.
- 1 Corinthians 4:4 ἀνακρίνων pres act ptcp nom sg masc For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 9:3 ἀνακρίνουσίν pres act ptcp dat pl masc My defense to those who examine me is this.
- 1 Corinthians 10:25 ἀνακρίνοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
- 1 Corinthians 10:27 ἀνακρίνοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
- 1 Corinthians 14:24 ἀνακρίνεται pres pass ind 3sg But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
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.
At its core, ανακρινω (anakrínō) means “to examine.” Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Corinthians (57% of all occurrences). With 14 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Luke 23:14, it enters the text early. From the same root come ανα, αναβαινω and αναβαλλομαι. Dig into 14-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G350 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 8 verses 57%
- Acts 5 verses 36%
- Luke 1 verse 7%
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 14 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 57%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 43%
- Gospels 1 verse · 7%
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: Asking 2×, Question 2×
- American Standard Version: Asking 2×, Question 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Examined 2×, Judges 2×, Raising questions 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Examining 2×, Having questioned 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G350 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G350 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 G350 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G350 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 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 1 sense 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.
- examine or judge
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G350 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G350, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 78 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανακρινω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 20:12 ἀνακρίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G350) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G350) 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.
