Word study · Greek

kritḗs

judge

Say it: kree-TACE (approximate)

κριτής

What it means

A judge. In 4:8, "the Lord, the righteous judge." In Acts 10:42, Jesus "is he who has been ordained by God as the Judge of the living and the dead"; in James 4:12, "there is one lawgiver and judge."

Range of meaning

  • JudgeOne who gives verdicts.
  • ArbiterOne who decides.

In 2 Timothy

  • Chapter 4

    "The Lord, the righteous judge" (4:8).

Every verse (1)

Verses where G2923 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources