ἐπικρίνω: 1 aorist ἐπεκρινα; to adjudge, approve by one's decision, decree, give sentence: followed by the accusative with an infinitive, Luk_23:24. (Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, Herodian, others.)

ἐπικρίνω epikrinō 1x to decide; to decree, Luk_23:24

** ἐπι -κρίνω , [in LXX : 2Ma_4:47 , 3Ma_4:2 * ;] to decree, give sentence: c . acc et inf ., Luk_23:24 .†

ἐπικρίνω [page 240] This verb, along with the corresponding subst. ἐπίκρισις , is very common of the examination of persons liable to military service, as e.g. in P Oxy I. 39 .11 (A.D. 52) where, with reference to a man who had been released owing to defective eyesight, it is stated ἐπεκρίθ (η ) ἐν Ἀλεξανδ (ρείᾳ ); cf. BGU I. 142 .1 (A.D. 159) ἐπεκρίθη Ἰσίδωρος . . . ἱππεὺ [ς ] τύρμης Ἀπο [λ ]λιναρίου ὑ̣ [πὸ ] Ἰσιδώρου . Both ἐπικρίνω and ἐπίκρισις are also used in connexion with the selection of boys aged 11 14 for admission to the list of privileged persons who were exempt from the poll-tax : see P Lond II. p. 42 ff., P Oxy II. p. 217 ff., and Wilcken Papyruskunde I. i. p. 142. For the ἐπικριτής , or magistrate who made the ἐπίκρισις , see P Fay 27 .3 (A.D. 151 2), P Tebt II. 320 .2 (A.D. 181) al. A wider use of the verb is seen in ib. II. 284 .2 (i/B.C.) where, in obedience to an oracular response from the god Soknebtunis, Lysimachus informs his sister ἐπικέκριταί μοι μὴ καταβῆναι ἕως τῆς κ̄ε̄ , it has been decided for me that I should not go down till the 25 th (Edd.) : cf. Luk_23:24 , and for ἐπίκριμα = edict, see P Tebt II. 286 .4 (A.D. 121 138). In MGr the verb = judge, criticize.

ἐπικρίνω fut. -κρι^νῶ "to decide, determine", Plat. , etc.

ἐπι-κρίνω [in LXX: 2Ma.4:47, 3Ma.4:2 * ;] to decree, give sentence: with accusative and inf., Luk.23:24.† (AS)