Lexical Summary anakrisis: an examination Original Word: ἀνάκρισιςTransliteration: anakrisis Phonetic Spelling: (an-ak'-ree-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an examination Meaning: an examination Strong's Concordance examination. From anakrino; a (judicial) investigation -- examination. see GREEK anakrino Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 351: ἀνάκρισιςἀνάκρισις, (εως, ἡ, an examination; as a law-term among the Greeks, the preliminary investigation held for the purpose of gathering evidence for the information of the judges (Meier and Schömann, Attic Process, pp. 27 (622; cf. Dict. of Antiq. under the word)); this seems to be the sense of the word in Acts 25:26. STRONGS NT 351a: ἀνακυλίωἀνακυλίω: 1. to roll up. 2. to roll back: ἀνακεκυλισται ὁ λίθος, Mark 16:4 T Tr WH. (Alexis in Athen. vi., p. 237 c.; Lucian, de luctu 8; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others.) |