Luke 7:43
Thou hast rightly judged.
After being condemned by the Pharisees for letting a woman "sinner" wash his feet with her tears, Jesus performs a scene with Simon the Pharisee to make a point.
Luke 7:43 Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke 7:43 You have judged correctly.
Correctly judged!
Greek
Greek Word Order
We should get it straight.
Lost in Translation
We can say this in English as succinctly in the same word order as Jesus does in Greek, "Correctly judged!"
Vocabulary (Greek word by word)
Ὀρθῶς [2 verses](adv) "Righty" is from orthos, which means "straight", "right", "true", "correct", in height, "upright", "standing", in line, "straight", metaphorically, "right", "safe", and "prosperous." .
ἔκρινας. [21 verses](verb 2nd sg aor ind act) "Thou hast judged" 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.
KJV — word by word
Thou -- This is from the second-person, singular form of the verb.
hast -- (WT) This helping verb "have" indicates that the verb is the tense indicating an action completed in the past. This is not the tense of the verb here.
rightly - The word translated as "rightly" means primarily "straight" but it used to mean "true" and "correct". Here is it is an adverb, so "correctly"
judged. -- 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.
NIV — word by word
You -- This is from the second-person, singular form of the verb.
have -- (WT) This helping verb "have" indicates that the verb is the tense indicating an action completed in the past. This is not the tense of the verb here.
judged. -- 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.
correctly- The word translated as "correctly" means primarily "straight" but it used to mean "true" and "correct". Here is it is an adverb, so "correctly"