katakrimem

Strong’sG2631

punishment following condemnation

stem katakrim-3 times in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.

AI Summary

κατάκριμα denotes punishment or penalty that follows a sentence of condemnation ⁴ - an adverse verdict against someone ², and the penalty it carries ¹². Abbott-Smith gives the sense as "penalty" ¹, and in the New Testament the word refers to the punishment, fine, or damage imposed as the result of condemnation ³, rather than the act of judging itself.

Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.

The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:

Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full

*† κατά-κριμα, -τος, τό

(< κατακρίνω),

penalty (RV, condemnation; but cf. Deiss., BS, 264 f.; MM, Exp., xv): Ro 5:16, 18 8:1.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2631 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-ak'-ree-mah

an adverse sentence (the verdict)

Fromfrom G2632;

King Jamescondemnation.

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

κατά-κρῐμα, ατος, τό,
condemnation, judgement, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 punishment, fine, damage, NT+1st c.AD+

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.

condemnation3×

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 or object direct	katakrimem1×κατάκριμα	katakrimeim
of, belonging to genitive	katakrimeu	katakrimeiu
to, for dative	katakrime	katakrimei

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

katakrimstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

katakrime 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

katakrimem“condemnation”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Romans 8:1Oudenem ara nun katakrimem toi en Christo Iēso;Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ …

katakrimem2×

Romans 5:16… men gar krimem ek heneu eis katakrimem, tem de charismem ek polleiu paraptōmeiu …… judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many …

Romans 5:18… heneu paraptōmeu eis pantoin anthrōpoin eis katakrimem, houtōs kai dia heneu dikaiōmeu eis …… then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one …