What does ἀκατάκριτος (akatákritos) mean in the Bible?
ἀκατάκριτος (akatákritos): Denotes someone not legally condemned or tried—emphasizes deprivation of judicial process, not mere lack of verdict.
Greek · G178
ἀκατάκριτος
Without (legal) trial
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ἀκατάκριτος G178
Pronunciation akatákritos
What does ἀκατάκριτος (akatákritos) mean in the Bible?
ἀκατάκριτος (akatákritos): Denotes someone not legally condemned or tried—emphasizes deprivation of judicial process, not mere lack of verdict.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G178?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include without a trial (2).
Where does ἀκατάκριτος (akatákritos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 16:37. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It without a trial 2× Acts 16:37, Acts 22:25
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 16:37
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Acts 2
Source forms
ἀκατάκριτον 1x akatakriton Acts 22:25
ἀκατακρίτους 1x akatakritous Acts 16:37
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural 1x Acts 16:37
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular 1x Acts 22:25
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Denotes someone not legally condemned or tried—emphasizes deprivation of judicial process, not mere lack of verdict.
Strong's G178
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
without (legal) trial
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Denotes someone not legally condemned or tried—emphasizes deprivation of judicial process, not mere lack of verdict.
(κατακρίνω),
2= cl. ἄκριτος, without trial, not yet tried (MM, VGT, see word) Ac, ll. cc.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 16:37 Adjective Accusative Plural Masculine
ἀκατακρίτους, akatakritouv
uncondemned
Read verse Acts 22:25 Adjective Accusative Singular Masculine
ἀκατάκριτον akatakriton
uncondemned
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (2) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Plural · Masculine Acts 16:37 1×
Accusative · Singular · Masculine Acts 22:25 1×
Word Origins
ἀκατάκριτος is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain