adjective
kritikos
Strong’sG2924
able to judge
stem kritik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* κριτικός, -ή, -όν
(< κρίνω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2924 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkrit-ee-kos'
decisive ("critical"), i.e. discriminative
Fromfrom G2923;
King Jamesdiscerner.
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
able to discern, critical, Refs 4th c.BC+ K.; τὸ κ. the power of discerning, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, [Refs 4th c.BC+: especially in language, grammarian, scholar, literary critic, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; of Crates, Refs 1st c.AD+; πρὸς τοὺς κ., title of work by Chrysippus, Refs 2nd c.AD+.3 H. adverb -Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of or for judging, ἀρχὴ κ. the office of judges, opposed to ἀρχὴ βουλευτική, Refs 4th c.BC+
II ={κρίσιμος},{ἑβδομάς} Refs 1st c.AD+ 9.93, +others adverb -Refs, +others
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kritikos1×κριτικὸς | kritikas | kritikem | kritikois | kritikais | kritikeim |
| object accusative | kritikon | kritikan | kritikoin | kritikain | ||
| direct address vocative | kritikor | kritikar | kritikoir | kritikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | kritikou | kritikau | kritikeu | kritikoiu | kritikaiu | kritikeiu |
| to, for dative | kritiko | kritika | kritike | kritikoi | kritikai | kritikei |
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
kritik 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kritikos“judge”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 4:12“judge”… pneumeu, harmoiu tē kai mueloiu, kai kritikos enthumēsiaiu kai ennoiaiu kardiau;… soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.