- Transliteration: Krino

- Phonetic: kree'-no

- Definition:

1. to separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose

2. to approve, esteem, to prefer

3. to be of opinion, deem, think, to be of opinion

4. to determine, resolve, decree

5. to judge

a. to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong

1. to be judged, i.e. summoned to trial that one's case may be examined and judgment passed upon it

b. to pronounce judgment, to subject to censure

1. of those who act the part of judges or arbiters in matters of common life, or pass judgment on the deeds and words of others

6. to rule, govern

a. to preside over with the power of giving judicial decisions, because it was the prerogative of kings and rulers to pass judgment

7. to contend together, of warriors and combatants

a. to dispute

b. in a forensic sense

1. to go to law, have suit at law

- Origin: perhaps a primitive word

- TDNT entry: 18:21,5

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Properly to distinguish that is decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try condemn punish: - avenge conclude condemn damn decree determine esteem judge go to (sue at the) law ordain call in question sentence to think.