What does κριτικός (kritikós) mean in the Bible?
κριτικός (kritikós): Able to distinguish and evaluate; discern truth from falsehood through penetrating judgment.
Greek · G2924
κριτικός
Discerning
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κριτικόςG2924
Pronunciationkritikós
What does κριτικός (kritikós) mean in the Bible?
κριτικός (kritikós): Able to distinguish and evaluate; discern truth from falsehood through penetrating judgment.
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How does the BSB render G2924?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include It judges (1).
Where does κριτικός (kritikós) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Hebrews 4:12. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItIt judges1×Hebrews 4:12
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First aligned rowHebrews 4:12
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Hebrews1
Source forms
κριτικὸς1xkritikosHebrews 4:12
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular1xHebrews 4:12
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Able to distinguish and evaluate; discern truth from falsehood through penetrating judgment.
Strong'sG2924
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
discerning
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Able to distinguish and evaluate; discern truth from falsehood through penetrating judgment.
(κρίνω), critical, able to discern or judge: with genitive obj., Heb.4:12.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Hebrews 4:12Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
κριτικὸςkritikov
able to judge
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 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · MasculineHeb 4:121×
Word Origins
κριτικός is built from this root: