κρίνω,
[in LXX chiefly for שׁפט, also for דּין, ריב, etc.;]
1. toseparate, select, choose (cl.; in LXX: II Mac 13:15).
2. to approve, esteem: Ro 14:5.
3. to be of opinion, judge, think: Lk 7:43, I Co 11:13; seq. τοῦτο ὅτι, II Co 5:14; c. acc. et inf., Ac 16:15; c. acc. et pred., Ac 13:4626:8.
4. to decide, determine, decree: c. acc., Ac 16:4, Ro 14:13, I Co 7:37, II Co 2:1; c. inf. (Field, Notes, 167), Ac 20:1625:25, I Co 2:25:3, Tit 3:12 (cf. I Mac 11:33, Wi 8:9, al.); c. acc. et inf., Ac 21:2527:1.
5. to judge, adjudge, pronounce judgment: absol., Jo 8:16, 26; seq. κατά, c. acc., Jo 7:248:15; κρίσιν κ., Jo 7:24; τ. δίκαιον, Lk 12:57 (Deiss., LAE, 118); in forensic sense, Jo 18:31, Ac 23:3, al.; pass., Ro 3:4(LXX); of God's judgment, Jo 5:308:50, Ro 2:163:6, II Ti 4:1, I Pe 4:5, al.
6. = κατακρίνω, to condemn (cl.): Ac 13:27; of God's judgment, Jo 3:185:2212:47, 48, Ac 7:7, Ro 2:12, I Co 11:32, He 10:30(LXX), Ja 5:9, Re 19:2, al.
7. As in LXX (for שׁפט), to rule, govern (IV Ki 15:5, Ps 2:10, al.): Mt 19:28, Lk 22:30, I Co 6:3.
8. to bring to trial (cl.); mid., to go to law: c. dat. pers., Mt 5:40; seq. μετά, c. gen. pers. (of the opponent), ἐπί, c. gen. (of the judge), I Co 6:1, 6 (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἀντ-απο- (-μαι), δια-, ἐν-, ἐπι-, κατα-, συν-, ὑπο- (-μαι), συν-υπο- (-μαι)).
SYN.: v.s. δικάστης.