katakrino is used for pronouncing an adverse judgment, sometimes with death as the stated outcome.

The verb is used for pronouncing adverse judgment: religious leaders are said to judge a person as deserving death, future figures condemn a generation in judgment, and the action may concern oneself, sin, the world, cities, or a person who disbelieves. The stated outcome is sometimes death, while other verses leave the particular consequence within the clause's wider judgment setting.

1. Pronouncing an adverse judgment · dominant

   In Mark 14:64, the aorist active plural form occurs after the question of decision, and the APB renders the group as judging him "as deserving death." In Luke 11:31 and Luke 11:32, future active forms describe the queen of the south and the men of Nineveh acting against that generation in the setting of judgment; Romans 2:1 applies the present active form to a person who judges another and thereby brings the judgment upon himself. The same action is also directed toward sin in Romans 8:3 and toward the world through Noah in Hebrews 11:7.

   Mark 14:64Luke 11:31Luke 11:32Romans 2:1Romans 8:3Hebrews 11:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB commonly uses "condemn" and in several clauses makes the outcome explicit with "to death" or "as deserving death." These renderings confirm the clauses' judgment setting rather than establish a separate English equivalent in every occurrence.