Greek noun (neuter) · G2922
κριτήριον
kriterionkree-tay'-ree-on
a means of judging, test, criterion.; a tribunal
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kritḗrion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2922is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2922
a rule of judging ("criterion"), i.e. (by implication) a tribunal
The King James renders it: to judge, judgment (seat).
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
kriterion is rendered "a means of judging, test, criterion.; a tribunal". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a means of judging, test, criterion.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
1 Corinthians 6:2κριτηρίων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a means of judging, test, criterion., and a tribunal.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a means of judging, test, criterion. | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world… |
| a tribunal1Co.6:2 6:4, Jas.2:6.† (AS) | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 6:2Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world… |
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- κριτήρια2
- κριτηρίων1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural1N-GPN
1 Corinthians
two uses
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- κριτηρίωνkriterionnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of cases
So if you need to settle everyday matters, do you appoint as judges those of no standing in the church?
- κριτήριαkriterianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: judgment
James
one use
But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
- κριτήριαkriterianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: court
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.