Definition

a decision (the function or the effect, for or against ("crime"))

Etymology

from G2919 (κρίνω);

Where the KJV renders it

• avenge
• condemned
• condemnation
• damnation
• + go to law
• judgment

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.