κρίνετε [21 verses](2nd pl pres ind act) "Judge" is krino, which primarily means "to separate," "to put asunder," and "to distinguish." It has a lot of other secondary meanings, including "to pick out," "to choose," "to decide" disputes or accounts, "to win" a battle, "to judge" especially in the sense of "estimate," "to expound," or "to interpret" in a particular way. -- The verb  "judge" primarily means "to separate," "sever," and "distinguish" as in separating fact from fiction and separating guilty from innocent, wrong from right. Jesus often uses it to mean "separate" in evaluating people, the way we use "criticize." It has a secondary meaning of "to pick out," "to choose," and "to prefer." It also can mean "to judge" but only in the context of a trial.