STRONGS G1462:
ἔγκλημα [see
ἐν, III. 3],
-τος,
τό, (
ἐγκαλέω),
accusation: the
crime of which one is accused,
Acts 25:16;
ἔγκλημα ἔχειν, to have laid to one's charge, be accused of a crime,
Acts 23:29. (Often in Attic writings from Sophocles and Thucydides on.)
[Synonyms: see κατηγορέω; cf. Isocrates 16,2 τὰς μὲν γὰρ δίκας ὑπὲρ τῶν ἰδίων ἐγκλημάτων λαγχάνουσι τὰς δὲ κατηγορίας ὑπὲρ τῶν τῆς πόλεως πραγμάτων ποιοῦνται καὶ πλείω χρόνον διατρίβουσι τὸν πατέρα μου διαβάλλοντες ἢ κτλ.]
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