Strong G350ἀνακρίνω

to investigate

Transliteration
anakrinō
Pronunciation
an-ak-ree'-no
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G303 and G2919; properly to scrutinize that is (by implication) investigate interrogate determine: - ask question discern examine judge search.

Detailed definition

ἀνα-κρίνω
[in LXX: 1Ki.20:12 (חָקַר), Dan LXX Su 1:13, LXX, TH Su 1:48, 51 *;]
to examine, investigate, question (Lft., Notes, 181 f.): Act.17:11, 1Co.2:14-15 4:3-4 9:3 10:25 10:27 14:24; in forensic sense (MM, VGT, see word; esp. of examination by torture; see Field, Notes, 120 f.), Luk.23:14, Act.4:9 12:19 24:8 28:18.†
SYN.: see: ἐξετάζω (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G350 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • examine6
  • judge3
  • ask2
  • judgeth2
  • question2
  • discern1
  • search1

First verses

  1. Luke 23:14
    Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
  2. Acts 4:9
    If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
  3. Acts 12:19
    And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.
  4. Acts 17:11
    These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
  5. Acts 24:8
    Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
  6. Acts 28:18
    Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
  7. 1 Corinthians 2:14
    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  8. 1 Corinthians 2:15
    But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
  9. 1 Corinthians 4:3
    But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
  10. 1 Corinthians 4:4
    For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
  11. 1 Corinthians 9:3
    Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
  12. 1 Corinthians 10:25
    Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
  13. 1 Corinthians 10:27
    If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
  14. 1 Corinthians 14:24
    But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀνακρίνω,
examine closely, interrogate, especially judicially, Παυσανίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.95, compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 201e; ἀ. τινὰ πόθεν ζῇ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 32.3)]; sound a person, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.20.12.)]
2 inquire into, ἀ. τοὺς ἐργασαμένους[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.3.2)]; τὴν [αἰτίαν] [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 994 “fragment” 21, compare “Lib.” p.21 O.:)] —middle, ἀ. ποινὰ τίς ἔσται what remedy there shall be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.63.)]
II examine magistrates so as to prove their qualification, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.66 and 70.)]
II.2 of the magistrates, examine persons concerned in a suit, so as to prepare the matter for trial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.101, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 5.32)]; ὁ ἄρχων ἀνέκρινε πᾶσιν ὑμῖν καὶ ἀνακρίνας εἰσήγαγεν εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.31, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 56.6)]:—passive, ἀνεκρίθησαν αἱ ἀμφισβητήσεις[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.23:)] —middle, οὐκ ἀνεκρίνατο ταύτην [τὴν γραφήν] he did not have it examined, of the prosecutor, [Refs ([prev. author] 21.103, compare 53.17.)]
II.3 generally, examine, μάρτυρας[Refs (“SIG” 953.46 (from Calymna))]; τινά 1[Refs (“Cor.” 9.3)]:—middle, [Refs (“Michel” 409.9 (from Cos).)]
II.4 select, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Pseudo-Callisthenes Historicus 3.26.)]
III in middle, absolutely, ἀνακρίνεσθαι πρὸς ἑωυτούς dispute, wrangle one with another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.56.)]