ἔγ-κλημα, ατος, τό, (ἐγκαλέω)
I accusation, charge, ἔ. τινι ἔχειν S. Ph. 323, cf. Tr. 361, Antipho 3.2.9, etc.; ἐγκλήματα ἔχειν τινός, = ἐγκαλεῖν τι, Th. 1.26; ἔ. ποιεῖν τι make a thing matter of complaint, Id. 3.53; ἐγκλήματα ποιεῖσθαι bring accusations, Id. 1.126; τὰ ἐ. τὰ ἔς τινας complaints respecting.., ib. 79; ἐν ἐγκλήματι γίγνεσθαι D. 18.251; γίγνεται or ἐστὶ ἔγκλημά μοι πρός τινα I have ground of complaint respecting him, X. Cyr. 1.2.6, Lys. 10.23; λύειν ἔ. clear away a charge, Plb. 2.52.4; λόγοις τὰ ἐ. διαλύεσθαι Th. 1.140.
II in Law, written complaint: generally, of complaints which were to lead to private suits, ἔ. λαγχάνειν τινί file a complaint against.., D. 34.16, al., cf. PTeb. 616 (ii A. D.).
III concrete, a standing reproach, τῆς τύχης καὶ τῶν θεῶν Plu Dio 58.
2. defect, Gal. 14.20.
ἔγκλημα enklēma 2x
an accusation, charge, crimination, [Act 23:29]; [Act 25:16]
G1462 — ἔγκλημα
(see ἐν, III. 3), ἐγκλήματος, τό (ἐγκαλέω), accusation: the crime of which one is accused, [Act 25:16]; ἔγκλημα ἔχειν, to have laid to one's charge, be accused of a crime, [Act 23:29]. (Often in Attic writings from Sophocles and Thucydides on.)