the judging
| Root | κρίσις (krisis) |
| Core Meanings | judging, decision, discernment, judgment, legal process, condemnation |
| Semantic Range | judicial decision, court judgment, legal case, act of judging, discernment, evaluation, condemnation, divine judgment |
| Conceptual Significance | κρίσις expresses the act of decisive evaluation or separation, often in legal or divine contexts. In biblical theology it frequently denotes God's judicial action, the decisive assessment of human deeds, and the eschatological judgment that reveals righteousness and wrongdoing. |
| Morphological Notes | Gr,N,,,,,AFS — noun, accusative feminine singular; functioning as a direct object or object of a preposition. |
| Rendering Rationale | κρίσιν is the accusative feminine singular form of κρίσις, denoting the act or process of judging. Rendering it as "the judging" preserves the verbal force of the root κρίνω (to judge, decide, separate) while reflecting its function as a singular direct object in the clause. |
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