noun · feminine
katēgorias
Strong’sG2724
a charge, accusation
stem katēgori-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
* κατηγορία, -ας, ἡ
(< κατήγορος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2724 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-ay-gor-ee'-ah
a complaint ("category"), i.e. criminal charge
Fromfrom G2725;
King Jamesaccusation (X -ed).
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
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, accusation, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to αἰτία (expostulation), Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀπολογία Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. ἐγένοντο πολλαὶ τῶν Ἀθηναίων charges were made against.., Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰ.. ἐπὶ τοῖς πεπραγμένοις κατηγορίας ἔχω I am liable to accusation, Refs 4th c.BC+
II in Logic, predication, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially affirmative predication, opposed to στέρησις, Refs
II.2 predicate, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 more frequently, category, head of predicables, Refs 4th 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 | katēgorias | katēgoriais |
| object accusative | katēgorian2×κατηγορίαν | katēgoriain |
| direct address vocative | katēgoriar | katēgoriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katēgoriau | katēgoriaiu |
| to, for dative | katēgoria1×κατηγορίᾳ | katēgoriai |
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
katēgoria 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
katēgorian“accusation”objectaccusative singular2×
John 18:29… exō pros autoin kai fēatō; Tinan katēgorian feravō kata tou anthrōpou houtou?… out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”
1 Timothy 5:19kata presbuterou katēgorian mē paradechosōr, ektos ei mē epi …Do not entertain an accusation against an elder, except on the …
katēgoria“accused”to, fordative singular1×
Titus 1:6“accused”… andros, tekneim echarōntos pisteim, mē en katēgoria asōtiau ē anupotakteim.… blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.