KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of condemn, meaning to pronounce guilty or wrong; to sentence, judge against, disapprove, or doom.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Kings 8:32
Complete exact-word concordance
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Then heare thou in heauen, and doe, and iudge thy seruants, condemning the wicked to bring his way vpon his head, and iustifying the righteous, to giue him according to his righteousnesse.
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
For they that dwell at Hierusalem, & their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read euery Sabbath day, they haue fulfilled them in condemning him.
Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
Condemning the wicked is directly contrasted with justifying the righteous and bringing each way upon him, confirming the judicial-verdict sense.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
