King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1253
Transliteration: diakrisis
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak'-ree-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: the act of judgment
Meaning: the act of judgment
διάκρισις, διακρισεως, ἡ (διακρίνω), a distinguishing, discerning, judging: πνευμάτων, 1 Corinthians 12:10; καλοῦ τέ καί κακοῦ, Hebrews 5:14; μή εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν, not for the purpose of passing judgment on opinions, as to which one is to be preferred as the more correct, Romans 14:1 (see διαλοσμος, 1). (Xenophon, Plato, others.)
Word Summary
diakrisis: the act of judgment
Original Word: διάκρισιςTransliteration: diakrisis
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak'-ree-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: the act of judgment
Meaning: the act of judgment
Strong's Concordance
discerning, disputation. From diakrino; judicial estimation -- discern(-ing), disputation.
see GREEK diakrino
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1253: διάκρισιςδιάκρισις, διακρισεως, ἡ (διακρίνω), a distinguishing, discerning, judging: πνευμάτων, 1 Corinthians 12:10; καλοῦ τέ καί κακοῦ, Hebrews 5:14; μή εἰς διακρίσεις διαλογισμῶν, not for the purpose of passing judgment on opinions, as to which one is to be preferred as the more correct, Romans 14:1 (see διαλοσμος, 1). (Xenophon, Plato, others.)