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Greek verb · G2632

κατακρίνω

katakrinokat-ak-ree'-no

to condemn

15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: katakrínō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2632is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 9
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2632

to judge against, i.e. sentence

The King James renders it: condemn, damn.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

katakrino is rendered "to condemn". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across seven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
  • The Greek text spells it nine different ways.

The first use

The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

Matthew 12:41κατακρινοῦσιν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's fifteen uses are in Matthew.

The other 20 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • will condemn4
  • condemned2
  • he condemned2
  • they will condemn2
  • condemning1
  • has been condemned1
  • He was condemned1
  • we may be condemned1
  • you are condemning1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

κατάkataaccording toUses468
καταβαίνωkatabainoto come/go downUses81
καταργέωkatargeoto abateUses27
καταλείπωkataleipoto leave behindUses23
καταλύωkatalyoto destroy/lodgeUses17
καταγγέλλωkatangelloto proclaimUses17
κατανοέωkatanoeoto observeUses14
καταντάωkatantaoto come toUses13
καταρτίζωkatartizoto completeUses13
καταισχύνωkataischynoto dishonorUses13
καταλαμβάνωkatalambanoto graspUses13
κατακαίωkatakaioto burnUses12

and 84 more on the stem.

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

9 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • κατακρινοῦσιν4
  • κατέκρινεν3
  • κατακρινεῖ2
  • κατακέκριται1
  • κατακριθῶμεν.¶1
  • κατακρίνεις1
  • κατακρινῶν1
  • κατεκρίθη1
  • κατέκριναν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural4V-FAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-APS-1P
  • verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
  • verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-RPI-3S

Matthew

four uses
  • The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

    Matthew 12:41

    • κατακρινοῦσινkatakrinousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will condemn
  • The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

    Matthew 12:42

    • κατακρινεῖkatakrineiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will condemn
  • “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death

    Matthew 20:18

    • κατακρινοῦσινkatakrinousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will condemn
  • When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

    Matthew 27:3

    • κατεκρίθηkatekritheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He was condemned

Mark

two uses
  • “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,

    Mark 10:33

    • κατακρινοῦσινkatakrinousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will condemn
  • You have heard the blasphemy. What is your verdict?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death.

    Mark 14:64

    • κατέκρινανkatekrinanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: condemned

Luke

two uses
  • The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

    Luke 11:31

    • κατακρινεῖkatakrineiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will condemn
  • The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.

    Luke 11:32

    • κατακρινοῦσινkatakrinousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will condemn

Romans

four uses
  • You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

    Romans 2:1

    • κατακρίνειςkatakrineisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you are condemning
  • For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

    Romans 8:3

    • κατέκρινενkatekrinenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: condemned
  • Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

    Romans 8:34

    • κατακρινῶνkatakrinonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: condemning
  • But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

    Romans 14:23

    • κατακέκριταιkatakekritaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been condemned

1 Corinthians

one use
  • But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

    1 Corinthians 11:32

    • κατακριθῶμεν.¶katakrithomenverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may be condemned

Hebrews

one use
  • By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

    Hebrews 11:7

    • κατέκρινενkatekrinenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he condemned

2 Peter

one use
  • if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

    2 Peter 2:6

    • κατέκρινενkatekrinenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He condemned

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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