Quick Definition
κρίμα, ατος, τό n.n. a judgment, verdict, lawsuit
Strong's Definition
from 2919; a decision (the function or the effect, for or against ("crime"))
KJV Usage: avenge, condemned, condemnation, damnation, + go to law, judgment
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | κρίνω
56.20 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judge, Condemn, Acquit
to decide a legal question, to act as a judge, making a legal decision, to arrive at a verdict, to try a case (in the passive to stand trial) to decide a question of legal right or wrong, and thus determine the innocence or guilt of the accused and assign appropriate punishment or retribution The process of legal judging is often expressed idiomatically. In Africa, one of the standard phrases for judging is ‘to cut a palaver,’ but other expressions in other languages may be ‘to find guilt,’ ‘to point the finger at wrong,’ or ‘to untangle strife.’
56.22 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judge, Condemn, Acquit
the right to judge, the authority to judge (derivative of κρίνω[e] ‘to judge legal cases,’ 56.20) the authority or right to judge guilt or innocence
56.24 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judge, Condemn, Acquit
verdict, sentence, judgment the legal decision rendered by a judge, whether for or against the accused
56.30 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judge, Condemn, Acquit
to judge as guilty, to condemn, condemnation to judge a person to be guilty and liable to punishment
MAT 7:2 · MRK 12:40 · LUK 20:47 · LUK 23:40 · LUK 24:20 · ROM 2:2 · ROM 2:3 · ROM 3:8 · ROM 13:2 · 1CO 11:29 · 1CO 11:34 · GAL 5:10 · 1TI 3:6 · 1TI 5:12 · JAS 3:1 · 2PE 2:3 · JUD 1:4 · REV 17:1 · REV 18:20
56.2 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Lawsuit, Case
lawsuit, case, legal action legal action taken in a court of law against someone In most languages there are technical terms for lawsuits or cases in court, but where these do not exist, one may always use a descriptive phrase, for example, ‘to accuse someone before a judge’ or ‘to argue against someone in court’ or ‘to say in court that someone has done a person harm.’
1 κρίνω[e], κρίσις[a], and κρίμα[a] often appear in contexts referring to the judgment of God, particularly in reference to the so-called end times, but the limited differences in semantic components of meaning in contexts referring to God’s judgment do not warrant setting up a separate set of meanings. 2 One might argue that the meaning of κρίνω, κρίσις, and κρίμα in the cited contexts is only to make a judgment and that the negative or adverse character of the judgment depends entirely on the context. However, the frequency of the occurrence of κρίνωκρίσις, and κρίμα in the specific sense of adverse judgment or verdict of guilt is such as to justify setting up two different meanings, one involving simply the process of rendering a legal judgment (56.20) and the other, the process of legal condemnation (56.30). 3 It is possible that πρᾶγμα[c] is somewhat more generic in meaning than κριτήριον[b] or κρίμα[e], but it is difficult to determine this from existing contexts.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κρίμα [ἃ TWH] or κρῖμα [L Tr (more commonly) ] (on the accent οἵ. W. p. 50; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch. p. 40 sq. [who gives the preference to κρίμα, as do Bttm. 73 (64); Cobet (N. T. ad fid. ete. p. 49 sq.); Fritzsche (Rom. vol. i. 96,107); al.; “videtur ζ antiquitati Graecae, i Alexandrinae aetati placuisse,” ΤᾺ Proleg. to Sept.ed. 4 p. xxx.; on the accent in extant codd. see Tif. Proleg. p.101; ef. esp. Lobeck, Paralip. p. 418]),-ros, τό, (fr. κρίνω, 4. ν.; a8 κλίμα fr. κλίνω), [ Aeschyl. down], Sept. very often for yaw; 1. adecree: plur., rod θεοῦ, Ro. xi. 33 [4]. here (with A. V.) judgments; cf. Weiss in Meyer ad loc.] (Ps. exviii. (exix.) 75). 2. judgment; i. 6. condemnation of wrong, the decision (whether severe or mild) which one passes on the faults of others: κρίματί τινι κρίνειν, Mt. vii. 2. In a forensic sense, the sentence of a judge: with a gen. of the punishment to which one is sentenced, θανάτου, Lk. xxiv. 20; esp. the sentence of God as judge: τὸ kpiua... εἰς κατάκριμα, the judgement (in which God declared sin to be punishable with death) issued in condemnation, i. e. was condemnation to all who sinned and therefore paid the penalty of death Ro. v. 16; esp. where the justice of God in punishing is to be shown, κρίμα denotes condemnatory sentence, penal judgment, sentence, 2 Pet. ii. 8: Jude 4; with gen. of the one who pronounces judgment, τοῦ θεοῦ, Ro. ii. Σ sq.; λαμβάνεσθαι κρίμα, Mt. xxiii. 13 (14) Ree.; Mk. xii. 40; Lk. xx. 47; Ro. xiii. 2; Jas. iii. 1; the one on whom God passes judgment is said ἔχειν κρίμα, 1 Tim. v.12; βαστάζειν τὸ κρίμα, to bear the force of the condemnatory judgment in suffering punishment (see βαστάζω, 2), Gal. v. 10; κρίμα ἐσθίειν ἑαυτῷ, so to eat as to incur the judgment or punishment of God, 1 Co. xi. 29; εἰς κρίμα συνέρχεσθαι, to incur the condemnation of God, 343 εἶναι ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ κρίματι, to lie under the same condemnation, pay the same penalty, Lk. xxiii. 40; with gen. of the one on whom condemnation is passed, Ro. iii. 8; 1 Tim. iii. 6; Rev. xvii. 1. the Judgment which is formed or passed: by God, through what Christ accomplished on earth, εἰς κρίμα ἐγὼ els τ΄ κόσμον τοῦτον ἦλθον, where by way of explanation is added ἵνα κτλ. to this end, that ete. Jn. ix. 39; τὸ κρίμα ἄρχεται, the execution of judgment as displayed in the infliction of punishment, 1 Pet. iv. 17; the last or final judgment is called τὸ xp. τὸ μέλλον, Acts xxiv. 25; xp. αἰώνιον, eternally in force, Heb. vi. 2; the vindication of one’s right, κρίνειν τὸ κρίμα τινὸς ἔκ Twos, to vindicate one’s right by taking vengeance or inflicting punishment on another, Rey. xviii. 20 ([R. V. God hath judged your judgment on her], see ἔκ, I. 7); i. q. the power and business of judging: kp. διδόναι τινί, Rev. xx. 4. 3. a matter to be judicially decided, a lawsuit, @ case in court: κρίματα ἔχειν μετά τινος, 1 Co. vi. 7.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κρίμα krima 27x
judgment; a sentence, award, Mt. 7:2; a judicial sentence, Lk. 23:40; 24:20; Rom. 2:2; 5:16; an adverse sentence, Mt. 23:14; Rom. 13:2; 1 Tim. 5:12; Jas. 3:1; judgment, administration of justice, Jn. 9:39; Acts 24:25; execution of justice, 1 Pet. 4:17; a lawsuit; 1 Cor. 6:7; in NT judicial visitation, 1 Cor. 11:29; 2 Pet. 2:3; an administrative decree, Rom. 11:33
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κρίμα (Bl., § 27, 2), -τος, τό
(< κρίνω), [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּט;]
the issue of a judicial process, hence, judgment, the decision passed on the faults of others: Mt 7:2; in forensic sense, c. gen. pun., Lk 24:20; esp. of the judgment of God, Ro 2:2 5:16 11:33 (ICC, in l.), II Pe 2:3, Ju 4; κ. λαμβάι εσθαι, Mt 23:13 (Rec., R, mg.), Mk 12:40, Lk 20:47, Ro 13:2, Ja 3:1; ἔχειν, I Ti 5:12; βαστάζειν, Ga 5:10; ἐσθίειν ἑαυτῷ, I Co 11:29; εἰς κ. συνέρχεσθαι, I Co 11:34; εἶναι ἐν τ αὐτῷ κ., Lk 23:40; c. gen. obj., Ro 3:8, I Ti 3:6, Re 17:1; of God's judgment through Christ, Jo 9:39; τὸ κ. ἄρχεται, I Pe 4:17; τ. κ. τ. μέλλον, Ac 24:25; κ. αἰώνιον, He 6:2; ἔκρινεν ὁ Θεὸς τ. κ. ὐμῶν, Re 18:20; of the right of judgment, Re 20:4.
a matter for judgment, a law-suit, a case: I Co 6:7.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κρίμα. Κρίμα (on the accent, see Proleg. p. 46) = ‘‘legal decision” is found in P Petr III. 267(iii/B.c.) το]ὺς τοπάρχ[ςους] κρίματα καθήκει εἰς τοὺς φόρους, ‘it is (not) the duty of the Toparchs to give decisions regarding the taxes” (Edd.), 76. 36 (a) verso (iii/B.C.) δεήσει συντελεῖσθαι τὰ κατὰ τὸ [κρίμα] ἐὰν δέηι κρίμα, “(the dioiketes) shall require the legal decision to be carried out, if such a decision be necessary’’ (Edd.). Cf. also the restoration in OGZS 33510 (ii/i B.c.), where αὐτ[οὶ ἐ]πιδεξάμενοι τὴν κρίσιν [is followed after an hiatus by ἐφε]να[ι τὰ κρίματα ἑαυτοῖς. From denoting ‘‘judgment,” ‘‘sentence,”’ the word came to denote the ‘‘offence ” for which one is sentenced, and hence in ΜΟΥ is frequently used = ‘‘sin,” as in the song entitled ‘‘ The Confessor,” where the penitent asks—£opoAdya pe, TA κρίματά pov para pe, “‘confess me; ask me about my sins,” and receives the answer—ta κρίματά σου ᾽ναι πολλά, Kal ἀγάπη va μὴ κάνῃς πλεία, “thy sins are many; thou must make love no more” (Abbott Songs, p- 122, cf. p. 272). Cf. τί κρῖμα, ‘‘ what a pity !”’
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κρίμα (krima) — judgment. κρίμα, ατος, τό, (κρίνω) decision, judgement, [NT+3rd c.BC+]; verdict on a literary work, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
2. decree, resolution, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
3. legal decision, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; decision of arbitrators, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; especially sentence, condemnation, [LXX+NT]
II. matter for judgement, question, [Refs 5th c.BC+].
II.2. law-suit, [LXX+NT]
III. ={κρίσις}, judging, judgement, NT.John.9.39, [NT], etc. [ῖ in A. [prev. cited] (nisi to be read κρεῖμα): ῐ in post-classical poetry; frequently written κρίμα in codices]