Crime

About 1611 and earlier, 'crime' was used, like Lat. crimen, in the sense of charge or accusation; as Grafton (1568), Chron. ii. 92, 'The common people raysed a great cryme upon the Archbishop,' and Milton, Par. Lost, ix. 1181 — ' But I rue That error now, which is become my crime And thou th' accuser.' In three out of the four occurrences of c. in AV, this is the meaning. In Job 31" (i?!) the Heb., and presumably the Eng., is crime in the mod. sense.

But in Ezk 7" ' the land is full of bloody crimes,' the Heb. (d'd^ b;;'?) is 'accusation of bloodshed,' or as RVm, 'judgment of blood.' In Ac 25"* 'the c. (RV 'matter') laid against him,' the Gr. lynXrifui means an accusation, and is so used distinctly in the only other occurrence in NT, Ac 23^ (AV and RV 'charge'). Lastly, in Ac 25^ ' to signify the crimes laid against him,' the Gr. aMa certainly means 'accusation' (RV ' charge ') as always in class. Greek. Cf .

Ac 25" Geneva, ' Against whom when the accusers st<iod up, they brought no criire of such things as I supposed.' J. Hastings.