Quick Definition
judicial examination, preliminary inquiry
Strong's Definition
a (judicial) investigation
Derivation: from G350 (ἀνακρίνω);
KJV Usage: examination
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνάκρισις, (εως, ἡ, an examination; as a law-term among the Greeks, the preliminary investigation held for the purpose of gathering evidence for the information of the judges (Meier and Schömann, Attic Process, pp. 27 (622; cf. Dict. of Antiq. under the word)); this seems to be the sense of the word in Act_25:26.
STRONGS NT 351a: ἀνακυλίωἀνακυλίω:
1. to roll up.
2. to roll back: ἀνακεκυλισται ὁ λίθος, Mar_16:4 T Tr WH. (Alexis in Athen. vi., p. 237 c.; Lucian, de luctu 8; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνάκρισις anakrisis 1x
investigation, judicial examination, hearing of a cause, Act_25:26
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ἀνά -κρισις , -εως , ἡ ,
[in LXX : 3Ma_7:5 * ;]
an examination: spec. of legal preliminary investigation, Act_25:26 ( v . MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνάκρισις [page 35]
See on ἀνακρίνω . In OGIS 374 (i/B.C.), which commemorates a certain Papias, a privy councillor and chief physician of Mithradates Eupator, King of Pontus, we find him described as τεταγμένον δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀνακρίσεων . Dittenberger gives reasons for thinking that non tam iudicem quam inquisitorem hoc significat, one who presided over the examination of men suspected of conspiracy : cf. Syll 356 .38 (B.C. 6), a rescript of Augustus, who says πέπονφα δὲ ὑμεῖν καὶ α [ὐτ ]ὰς τὰς ἀνακρίσεις , the precis of a preliminary inquiry, cf. also Preisigke 1568 Ἀ . τὸν συγγενῆ καὶ κτλ . καὶ ἐπιστράτηγον καὶ πρὸς ταῖς ἀνακρίσεσι (reign of Euergetes II.). The noun occurs again in P Tebt I. 86 .1 ff. (late ii/B.C.), where a man is described as ὁ πρὸς τα [ῖς ἀ ]ν̣α̣κρίσ̣εσει . In P Lips I. 4 .15 (A.D. 293) the word follows ἀπογραφή , and Mitteis notes that it occurs in P Lond 251 (A.D. 337 50) (= II. p. 317) likewise in connexion with the purchase of a slave : since ἀνάκρισις means a preliminary examination ( Voruntersuchung ), one thinks of a trial made before the purchase of the slave. Cf. the use of the word in Act_25:26 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνάκρισις [Etym: ἀνακρίνω] "examination of parties concerned in a suit, a preparation" of the matter for trial, Xen. ; μηδ᾽ εἰς ἄγκρισιν ἐλθεῖν, i. e. not even "to begin proceedings", Aesch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνά-κρισις, -εως, ἡ
[in LXX: 3Ma.7:5 * ;]
an examination: spec. of legal preliminary investigation, Act.25:26 (see MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)