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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"a judgment," a decision passed on the faults of others, is used especially of God's judgment upon men, and translated "sentence" in 2—Peter 2:3 , RV (AV, "judgment"). See Judgment , No. 2.
"a judicial sentence, condemnation," is translated "sentence" in Acts 25:15 , RV (AV, "judgment"); some mss. have dike.
is translated "sentence" in 2—Corinthians 1:9 , AV (RV, "answer"). See Answer , No. 2.
"to judge, to adjudge," is translated "(my) sentence is" in Acts 15:19 , AV, RV, "(my) judgment is," lit., "I (ego, emphatic) judge," introducing the substance or draft of a resolution. See Judge , B, No. 1.
"to give sentence," is used in Luke 23:24 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
(2): ( n.) Sense; meaning; significance.
(3): ( n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
(4): ( n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
(5): ( n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
(6): ( n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
(7): ( v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
(8): ( v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
(9): ( v. t.) To utter sententiously.
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [3]
In the NT this word is used only three times: (1) as indicating a judicial sentence (ἐπικρίνω, Luke 23:24; see Trial-at-law); (2) as giving a decision or judgment on a matter submitted for settlement (κρίνω): ‘My sentence (Revised Version‘judgement’) is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God’ ( Acts 15:19); (3) as a conclusion come to, or an answer given to a question put in certain circumstances (ἀπόκριμα): ‘But we had the sentence of death in ourselves’ ( 2 Corinthians 1:9 Authorized Version; Revised Version, ‘Yea, we ourselves have had the answer [Revised Version margin ‘sentence’] of death within ourselves’). The word is of very frequent use in Acts and the Epistles in the sense of expressing a personal judgment or decision, or of holding an opinion ( Acts 26:8, 1 Corinthians 2:2, etc.).
John Reid.
King James Dictionary [4]
SEN'TENCE, n. from L. sententia, from sentio, to think.
1. In law, a judgement pronounced by a court or judge upon a criminal a jdicial decision publicly and officially declared in a criminal prosecution. In technical language, sentence is used only for the declaration of judgement against the convicted of a crime. In cases, the decision of the court is called a judgement. In criminal cases, sentence is a judgement pronounced doom. 2. In language not technical, a determination or decision given, particularly a decision that condemns, ar an unfavorable determination.
Let him be sent out lome of Luther's works, that by them we may pass sentence upon his doctrines. Atterbury.
3. An opinion judgement concerning a controverted point. 4. A maxim an axiom a short saying containing moral instruction. 5. Vindication of one's innocence. 6. In grammar, a period a number of words containing a complete sense or sentiment, and followed by a full pause. Sentences are simple or compound. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one finite verb as, "the Lord reigns." A compound sentence two or more subjects and finite verbs, as in this verse,
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
sen´tens : Eight Hebrew and three Greek words are thus translated in the King James Version. Sometimes it points to a mystery ( Daniel 5:12; Daniel 8:23 ); then again to the contents of the Law ( Deuteronomy 17:11 ); then again to the idea of judgment ( Psalm 17:2 ) or of a judicial sentence ( 2 Corinthians 1:9; Luke 23:24 ), or of judicial advice ( Acts 15:19 , the American Standard Revised Version "judgment").
