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κρίμα , ατος, τό, (κρίνω)
A.decision, judgement, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.58, Plb.23.1.12, LXX Ps.118(119).7, al., Ep.Rom.11.33, Arr.Epict.2.15.8; “περί τινος” M.Ant.8.47; verdict on a literary work, Phld.Po.5.23.
2. decree, resolution, “δήμου” D.H.4.12; “ἱερομνημόνων” BCH27.107, cf. IGRom.3.58,66 (Prusias).
3. legal decision, PPetr.3p.56 (iii B. C.), SIG826Eii 29 (Delph., ii B. C.); decision of arbitrators, ib. 421.44 (Thermum, iii B. C.); esp. sentence, condemnation, LXX De.21.22, al., Ev.Marc.12.40, etc.
II. matter for judgement, question, “οὐκ εὔκριτον τὸ κρῖμα” A.Supp.397.
2. law-suit, LXX Ex.18.22, 1 Ep.Cor.6.7.
III. = κρίσις, judging, judgement, Ev.Jo.9.39, Act.Ap.24.25, etc. [ῖ in A.l.c. (nisi leg. κρεῖμα ): ι^ in post-classical poetry; freq. written κρίμα in codd.]
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 397
    • New Testament, Acts, 24.25
    • New Testament, Mark, 12.40
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 18.22
    • New Testament, Romans, 11.33
    • Polybius, Histories, 23.1.12
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 6.7
    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 21.22
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.12
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 8.47
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