krivnw krivnw; future krivnw; 1 aorist e[krina; perfect kevkrika; 3 person singular pluperfect, without augment (Winer's Grammar, sec. 12, 9; (Buttmann, 33 (29))), kekrivkei ( G L T Tr WH); passive, present krivnomai; imperfect ejkrinomhn; perfect kekrimai; 1 aorist ejkriqhn (cf. Buttmann, 52 (45)); 1 future kriqhvsomai; the Septuagint for fp'v;, and also for @WD and byrI; Latin cerno, i. e.1. to separate, put asunder; to pick out, select, choose (Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Xenophon, Plato, others; metav neanivskwn ajrivstwn kekrimevnwn (chosen, picked), ; kekrivmenoi a[rconte", Josephus, Antiquities 11, 3, 10); hence,2. to approve, esteem: hJmevran par! hJmevran, one day above another, i. e. to prefer (see parav, III. 2 b.), (so tiv prov tivno", Plato, Phil., p. 57 e.; tovn !Apollw' prov Marsuou, rep. 3, p. 399{e}.); pa'san hJmevran, to esteem every day, i. e. hold it sacred, ibid.3. to be of opinion, deem, think: ojrqw'" e[krina", thou hast decided (judged) correctly, ; followed by an infinitive ; followed by a direct question, ; tou'to, o{ti etc. to be of opinion etc. ; followed by the accusative with an infinitive ; tina or tiv followed by a predicate accusative, krivnein tina a[xion tivno", to judge one (to be) worthy of a thing, ; a[piston krivnetai, .4. to determine, resolve, decree: tiv, (kri'nai tiv kaiv provqesqai, Polybius 3, 6, 7; tov krivqen, which one has determined on, one's resolve, 5, 52, 6; 9, 13, 7; toi'" kriqeisi ejmmevnein dei', Epictetus diss. 2, 15, 7ff); dovgmata, passive (the decrees that had been ordained (cf. A. V.)), ; tou'to krivnate, followed by an infinitive preceded by the article tov, ; also with ejmautw'/ added, for myself i. e. for my own benefit (lest I should prepare grief for myself by being compelled to grieve you), ; followed by an infinitive, ; ; G L T Tr WH ((see below)); ; (; ; ; ; Sap. ; Diodorus 17, 95; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 1, 5; 12, 10, 4; 13, 6, 1); with tou' prefixed, Rec. ((see above)); followed by the accusative with an infinitive (); with tou' prefixed, (cf. Buttmann, sec. 140, 16 d.); (krivnetai tivni, it is one's pleasure, it seems good to one, 1 Esdr. f (21f); (92)).5. to judge; a. to pronounce an opinion concerning right and wrong; a. in a forensic sense ((differing from dikavzein, the official term, in giving prominence to the intellectual process, the sifting and weighing of evidence)), of a human judge: tina, to give a decision respecting one, ; katav tovn novmon, ; ; Rec.; the substance of the decision is added in an infinitive, <