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Koine Greek wordlink #93064

SR GNT Acts 13:20 κριτὰς (kritas) ‘after these things he gave them judges until Samouaʸl/(Shəmū^ʼēl) the prophet’ Strongs=29230 Lemma=kritēs
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=plural

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Only use of identical word form κριτὰς (N-AMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κριτὰς’ (N-AMP) is always and only glossed as ‘judges’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kritēs’ have 5 different glosses: ‘a judge’, ‘as judge’, ‘to the judge’, ‘judge’, ‘judges’.

Greek words (3) other than κριτὰς (N-AMP) with a gloss related to ‘judges’

MAT 12:27 κριταὶ (kritai) N-NMP ‘because_of this they judges will_be of you_all’ SR GNT Mat 12:27 word 21

LUKE 11:19 κριταὶ (kritai) N-NMP ‘this they of you_all judges will_be’ SR GNT Luke 11:19 word 25

YAC 2:4 κριταὶ (kritai) N-NMP ‘yourselves and became judges with speculations evil’ SR GNT Yac 2:4 word 8

Key: N=noun AMP=accusative,masculine,plural NMP=nominative,masculine,plural