Word Summary
apokrima: a judicial sentence, an answer
Original Word: ἀπόκριμαTransliteration: apokrima
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok'-ree-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a judicial sentence, an answer
Meaning: a judicial sentence, an answer
Strong's Concordance
sentence.
From apokrinomai (in its original sense of judging); a judicial decision -- sentence.
see GREEK apokrinomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 610: ἀπόκριμαἀπόκριμα,
ἀποκριτος,
τό (
ἀποκρίνομαι, which see in
ἀποκρίνω),
an answer:
2 Corinthians 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).)