κρίσις (krísis) is a noun translated judgment, justice, verdict, or charge according to context. Its 47 governed forms include final-judgment language, present statements about judgment, and passages where the translation emphasizes justice.
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κρίσις (krísis) is a noun translated judgment, justice, verdict, or charge according to context. Its 47 governed forms include final-judgment language, present statements about judgment, and passages where the translation emphasizes justice.
The BSB source-word alignment has 47 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include judgment (25), of judgment (9), justice (4), judgments (2), . . . (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 5:21. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (12), John (11), 2 Peter (4), Luke (4).
G2920 is a noun translated judgment, justice, verdict, or charge according to context. Its 47 governed forms include final-judgment language, present statements about judgment, and passages where the translation emphasizes justice. John 5 uses it in Jesus' teaching about judgment entrusted to the Son, not coming into judgment, authority to execute judgment, and the resurrection of judgment.
Matthew 12:18 and 12:20 use it in the servant quotation about bringing justice to victory. Luke 11:42 speaks of neglecting justice and the love of God. Acts 8:33 uses it in the quotation about justice being denied. These uses prevent the noun from being defined only as a future event or only as condemnation. They also caution against a rigid formula in which G2920 always names a process and G2917 always names a result.
Each passage must establish whether judgment, justice, a judicial matter, or a charge is in view.
The governed witness contains 47 G2920 forms in 46 verses. Matthew supplies twelve forms and John eleven; 2 Peter, Luke, and Revelation supply four each; seven other books supply the remaining twelve. Judgment and justice both belong to the observed translation range.
Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
G2920 names judgment entrusted to the Son within a sustained account of His authority and relation to the Father.
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
The verse joins hearing, believing, eternal life, not coming under judgment, and crossing from death to life.
Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
The servant's work includes proclaiming justice to the nations, widening the observed range beyond a condemnatory verdict.
But woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God.
Justice and the love of God are obligations that should not be neglected while observing smaller matters.
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
The verse places judgment after death and introduces the comparison completed by Christ's once-for-all offering and future appearance in verse 28.
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Greek word. Divine judgment is the NT's dominant theological use, distinct from human judicial decisions.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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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.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 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.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 6 selected witnesses from 47 lexical occurrence verses.
Highlights God’s demand for moral righteousness.1 John 4:17-21
Final evaluative authority vested in the Son.James 5:12
Establishes the Son’s role as final Judge.John 5:19–29
Connects careless speech with divine accountability.Luke 11:37–44
Christian hope addresses the reality of final accountability.James 5:12
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G2920 prevents teachers from separating divine judgment from divine justice or from treating every occurrence as the same scene. John 5 speaks of judgment entrusted to the Son and of the believer not coming into judgment. Matthew's servant quotation uses the noun for justice proclaimed to the nations and led to victory. Luke 11:42 rebukes religious precision that neglects justice and the love of God.
Hebrews 9:27 places judgment after death within a comparison completed by Christ's once-for-all offering and future appearance. These claims belong together in the canon, but they must first remain distinct in their passages. The noun can identify judgment, justice, a verdict, or a charge. It does not independently explain every final-judgment question, and it does not support an absolute rule that related G2917 is always result while G2920 is always process.
Faithful preaching preserves the lexical range and lets context establish actor, time, object, and purpose.
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G2920 is a feminine noun. The governed witness contains fifteen genitive singular, fifteen accusative singular, eight nominative singular, seven dative singular, and two nominative plural forms. The five surface forms are κρίσεως, κρίσιν, κρίσις, κρίσει, and κρίσεις. English rendering includes judgment, justice, verdict, sentence, and charge. Related G2917 and G2919 vocabulary overlaps, so syntax and passage context must govern sense.
Old Testament passages about the Lord's judgment, justice for the vulnerable, the servant's mission, and final accountability provide theological context. Matthew 12 explicitly presents a servant quotation, but other lexical or quotation relationships should be demonstrated at the passage level.