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See
CALL
, No. 13,
CONCLUDE
,
CONDEMN
,
DECREE
,
DETERMINE
,
ESTEEM
,
LAW
(go to),
ORDAIN
,
SENTENCE
,
THINK
.
Note:
In Acts 21:25, the
RV
has “giving judgement” (
KJV
, “concluded”); see
JUDGMENT
,
Note
(5).
2.
(
$&
, 350), “to examine, investigate, question” ( , “up,” and No.
1), is rendered “judged” in 1 Cor. 2:14,
RV
(
KJV
, “are … discerned;”
RV
marg.,
“examined”), said of the things of the Spirit of God; in v. 15, “judgeth” (
RV
marg.,
“examineth”), said of the exercise of a discerning “judgment” of all things as to their true
value, by one who is spiritual; in the same verse, “is judged (of no man),”
RV
marg.,
“examined”, i.e., the merely natural mind cannot estimate the motives of the spiritual; in
4:3, “I should be judged,” i.e., as to examining and passing sentence on the fulfillment or
nonfulfillment of the apostle’s stewardship; so in the same verse, “I judge (not mine own
self),” and in v. 4 “(he that) judgeth (me is the Lord)”; in 14:24, “he is judged (of all),”
i.e., the light of the heart-searching testimony of the assembly probes the conscience of
the unregenerate, sifting him judicially. See
ASK
, No. 7,
DISCERN
, A, No. 1.
3.
(
$&
, 1252) denotes “to separate throughout” ( , and No. 1),
“discriminate, discern,” and hence “to decide, to judge” (also “to contend, to hesitate, to
doubt”); it is rendered “to judge” in 1 Cor. 6:5, in the sense of arbitrating; in 11:31 (1st
part), the
RV
has “(if we) discerned (ourselves),”
KJV
“(if we would) judge” (
, No. 1,
is used in the 2nd part); so in 14:29,
RV
, “discern” (
KJV
, “judge”). See
DECIDE
, A,
DISCERN
, A. No. 2.
Notes:
(1) In 1 Cor. 6:2 (last clause) “to judge” represents the noun
, which
denotes “a tribunal, a law court,” and the meaning thus is “are ye unworthy of sitting
upon tribunals of least importance?” (see
RV
marg.), i.e., to “judge” matters of smallest
importance. Some would render it “cases,” but there is no clear instance elsewhere of this
meaning. See
JUDGMENT SEAT
. (2) In Heb. 11:11, the verb
, “to consider, think,
account,” is rendered “she judged (Him faithful),”
KJV
(
RV
, “she counted”). See
COUNT
,
No. 2.
JUDGMENT
1.
(
$&
, 2920) primarily denotes “a separating,” then, “a decision, judgment,”
most frequently in a forensic sense, and especially of divine “judgment.” For the variety
of its meanings, with references, see
CONDEMNATION
, B, No. 3.
Notes:
(1) The Holy Spirit, the Lord said, would convict the world of ( , “in
respect of”), i.e., of the actuality of, God’s “judgment,” John 16:8, 11. Cf. 2 Thess. 1:5.
(2) In Rom. 2:5 the word
, “righteous judgment,” combines the adjective
, “righteous,” with
, the two words which are used separately in 2 Thess.
1:5.¶
2.
(
$&
, 2917) denotes the result of the action signified by the verb
, “to
judge”; for its general significance see
CONDEMNATION
, B, No. 1: it is used (a) of a
decision passed on the faults of others, Matt. 7:2; (b) of “judgment” by man upon Christ,
Luke 24:20; (c) of God’s “judgment” upon men, e.g., Rom. 2:2, 3; 3:8; 5:16; 11:33; 13:2;