Strong's G1469: ἐγκρίνω (enkrínō) Meaning

Quick Definition

ἐγκρίνω v. I count among

Strong's Definition

to judge in, i.e. count among

Derivation: from G1722 (ἐν) and G2919 (κρίνω);

KJV Usage: make of the number

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐγκρίνω (G1469)

verb | κρίνω

58.27 · Nature, Class, Example · Class, Kind

to classify to classify by judging something to be in a particular category or class In 2CO 10:12 there is evidently a play on the meanings of ἐγκρῖναι and συγκρῖναι (see συγκρίνω[a], 64.6).

2CO 10:12

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἐγκρίνω [T WH evx., see ἐν, III. 3]: [1 aor. ἐνέκρινα] ; to reckon among, judge among: twa τινι, to judge one worthy of being admitted to a certain class [A. V. to number with], 2Co.x.12. (From Xen. and Plato down.) ἢ

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἐγκρίνω enkrinō 1x

to judge or reckon among, consider as belonging to, adjudge to the number of; class with, place in the same rank, 2 Cor. 10:12*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἐγ-κρίνω, v.s. ἐνκ-.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἐνκρίνω / ἐγκρίνω [page 216] With this verb in 2Co_10:12 Nδgeli (p. 56) compares the use in the inscrr. ἐ . εἰς τοὺς ἐφήβους , enroll, as CIG II. 2715 a. .11 ( c. A.D. 20), IG VII. 29 .6 (iii/ii B.C.). The Alexandrian critics of the third and second centuries B.C. employed it to mark out or select the best writers, as when the orator Deinarchus is described by Suidas as τῶν μετὰ Δημοσθένους ἐγκριθέντων εῖς : see Companion to Greek Studies , p. 147. For the subst. cf. Syll 278 .16 (ii/B.C.) στοχαζομένων ὑμῶν ἐκ τῶν ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ γεγραμμένων ἐγκρίσεων .

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἐγκρίνω (egkrinō) — to classify. ἐγκρίνω [ῑ], reckon in or among: reckon as, τίν᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἄριστον ἐγκρίναιεν ἄν; [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. of persons, select, admit, ἐ. ἢ συγκρ. [NT]:—passive, εἰς τὴν αἵρεσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of ἔφηβοι, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of athletes, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐγκρινόμενος, ὁ, subject of statue by Alcamenes, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

3. admit, accept, opposed to ἀποκρίνω, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παλιγγενεσίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; regard as genuine, νομίσματα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; admit, sanction, e.g. an author as classical, [Refs]

4. approue, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἀριθμὸς ἐγκρίνεται is adopted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἐγ-κρίνω, see: ἐνκ-. ἐν-κρίνω (Rec. ἐγκ-, see: ἐν), to reckon among : ἑαυτούς, 2Co.10:12.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (1)

10:12

G1469 ἐγκρίνω (enkrínō)