Discerning
κριτικόςStrong’s G2924kritikos
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Kritikos is the Greek word usually translated “able to judge”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Meaning
Usually translated “able to judge”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- able to judge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
κριτικός kritikos · discerning
κριτικός, -ή, -όν (κρίνω), critical, able to discern or judge: with genitive obj., Heb.4:12.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “discerning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISCERNING, participle present
tense
- Distinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; judging.
- adjective Having power to discern; capable of seeing, discriminating, knowing and judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute; as a discerning man or mind.
All definitions and other forms of “discerning”
DISCERNING, noun
The act of discerning; discernment.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.