Quick Definition
an answer, a judicial decision
Strong's Definition
a judicial decision
Derivation: from G611 (ἀποκρίνομαι) (in its original sense of judging);
KJV Usage: sentence
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπόκριμα, ἀποκριτος, τό (ἀποκρίνομαι, which see in ἀποκρίνω), an answer: 2Co_1:9, where the meaning is, 'On asking myself whether I should come out safe from mortal peril, I answered, I must die. (Josephus, Antiquities 14, 10, 6 of an answer (rescript) of the Roman senate; (similarly in Polybius excpt. Vat. 12, 26{b} , 1).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπόκριμα apokrima 1x
a judicial sentence, 2Co_1:9
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ἀπό -κριμα , -τος , τό
( < ἀποκρίνω );
1. prop ., a judicial sentence: 2Co_1:9 , R , mg .
2. an answer ( v. Thayer , s.v. ): 2Co_1:9 , R , txt . (In FlJ , Ant., xiv, 10, 6, of a rescript of the Senate; in Inscr . of an official decision, Deiss., BS , 257; a reply to a deputation, MM , s.v. : cf. also Cremer , 3'75).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπόκριμα [page 64]
OGIS 335 .95 (ii/B.C.) τὰ ἀ ]ποσταλέντα ὑπ [αὐ ]τῶν ἀποκρίματα and .119 καθό [τ ]ι καὶ αὐτοὶ διὰ τῶν ἀποκριμάτω [ν ] ἐνεφάνισαν . Still nearer in point of time to the sole NT occurrence of the word ( 2Co_1:9 ) is IMAe 2 .4 (Rhodes, A.D. 51) in which τὰ εὐκταιότατα ἀποκρίματα refer to favourable decisions of the Emperor Claudius (Deissmann, BS p. 257) : cf. IG VII. 2711 .64 ff. (A.D. 37) προσενδεξάμενος κατὰ δωρεὰν [πρεσ ]βεύσιν πρὸς τὸν Σεβαστὸν . . . ἤνενκεν ἀπόκριμα πρὸς τὸ ἔθνος πάσης [φιλαν ]θρωπίας καὶ ἐλπίδων ἀγαθῶν πλῆρες . OGIS 494 .18 (? i/iiA.D.) joins ἐπιστολαί , ἀποκρίματα , διατάγματα : Dittenberger defines these successively in the context as dispatches addressed by the proconsul to the Emperor, the Senate, etc., replies given to deputations of provincials to him, and edicta , or documents addressed to the people at large, and not to individuals. See also his note on Syll 368 .5 (i/A.D.), where C. Stertinius, chief physician to the Imperial family, is also ἐπὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἀποκριμάτων . In P Tebt II. 286 .1 (A.D. 121 38) ἀ . is a rescript of Hadrian. Paul ( l.c. ) may be taken as meaning that he made his distressed appeal to God, and kept in his own heart s archives the answer ἀποθάνῃ τὸ δὲ ἀποθανεῖν κέρδος , as we might reconstruct it.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀπόκριμα [Etym: from ἀποκρίνω] "a judicial sentence", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀπό-κριμα, -τος, τό
(ἀποκρίνω);
__1. prop., a judicial sentence: 2Co.1:9, R, mg.
__2. an answer (see Thayer, see word): 2Co.1:9, R, txt. (In FlJ, Ant., xiv, 10, 6, of a rescript of the Senate; in Inscr. of an official decision, Deiss., BS, 257; a reply to a deputation, MM, see word: cf. also Cremer, 3'75).†
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