- Transliteration: Krisis

- Phonetic: kree'-sis

- Definition:

1. a separating, sundering, separation

a. a trial, contest

2. selection

3. judgment

a. opinion or decision given concerning anything

1. esp. concerning justice and injustice, right or wrong

b. sentence of condemnation, damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment

4. the college of judges (a tribunal of seven men in the several cities of Palestine; as distinguished from the Sanhedrin, which had its seat at Jerusalem)

5. right, justice

- Origin: perhaps a primitive word

- TDNT entry: 18:41,5

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: (Subjectively or objectively for or against); by extension a tribunal; by implication justice (specifically divine law): - accusation condemnation damnation judgment.