noun · masculine
dikastos
Strong’sG1348
a judge
stem dikast-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
δικαστής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< δικάζω), [in LXX for שֹׁפֵט;]
SYN.: κριτής, wh. "gives prominence to the mental process" (Thayer). δ. is the forensic term. In Attic law, the δικασταί were jurors, with a κριτής as presiding officer (LS, s.v.; Enc. Brit.11, xii, 504 f.).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1348 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddik-as-tace'
a judger
Fromfrom a derivative of G1349;
King Jamesjudge.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
a judge, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of stars, δ. τῶν ὅλων Refs 1st c.BC+
3 at Athens and elsewhere, juror, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to νομοθέτης, Refs 5th c.BC+
II δ. αἵματος avenger, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dikastos | dikastois |
| object accusative | dikaston2×δικαστὴν | dikastoin |
| direct address vocative | dikastor | dikastoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dikastou | dikastoiu |
| to, for dative | dikasto | dikastoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dikasto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
dikaston“judge”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 7:27… legarantos; Tinos sin katastēata archonton kai dikaston epi nu?… said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
Acts 7:35… legarantois; Tinos sin katastēata archonton kai dikaston, houton tos theos kai archonton kai …… words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent …