Strong's Concordance ktisis: creation (the act or the product) Original Word: κτίσις, εως, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: ktisis Phonetic Spelling: (ktis'-is) Short Definition: creation, creature, institution Definition: (often of the founding of a city), (a) abstr: creation, (b) concr: creation, creature, institution; always of Divine work, (c) an institution, ordinance. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 2937 ktísis – properly, creation (creature) which is founded from nothing (this is also the sense of this term from Homer on); creation out of nothing (Lat ex nihilo). See 2936 (ktizō) and 2939 /ktístēs ("the Creator") for lengthy discussion on "creation-facts." Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2937: κτίσιςκτίσις, κτίσεως, ἡ (κτίζω), in Greek writings the act of founding, establishing, building, etc.; in the N. T. (Vulg. everywherecreatura (yet Hebrews 9:11creatio)) 1. the act of creating, creation: τοῦ κόσμου, Romans 1:20. 2. equivalent to κτίσμα, creation i. e. thing created (cf. Winers Grammar, 32); used a. of individual things and beings, a creature, a creation: Romans 1:25; Hebrews 4:13; any created thing, Romans 8:39; after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called חֲדָשָׁה בִּרִיָה (cf. Schöttgen, Horae Hebr 1:328, 704f)), καινή κτίσις is used of a man regenerated through Christ, Galatians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17. b. collectively, the sum or aggregate of created things: Revelation 3:14 (on which see ἀρχή, 3; (ἡ κτίσις τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Teaching of the Twelve etc. c. 16 [ET])); ὅλῃ ἡ κτίσις, Wis. 19:6; πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις, Judith 16:14; and without the article (cf. Grimm on 3 Macc. ( 3. an institution, ordinance: 1 Peter 2:13; cf. Huther at the passage ((Pindar, others.)) From ktizo; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively) -- building, creation, creature, ordinance. see GREEK ktizo Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 293719 Occurrences κτίσει — 4 Occ. κτίσεως — 8 Occ. κτίσις — 7 Occ. Mark 10:6 N-GFS GRK: δὲ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἄρσεν καὶ NAS: But from the beginning of creation, [God] MADE KJV: the beginning of the creation God INT: however [the] beginning of creation male and Mark 13:19 N-GFS Mark 16:15 N-DFS Romans 1:20 N-GFS Romans 1:25 N-DFS Romans 8:19 N-GFS Romans 8:20 N-NFS Romans 8:21 N-NFS Romans 8:22 N-NFS Romans 8:39 N-NFS 2 Corinthians 5:17 N-NFS Galatians 6:15 N-NFS Colossians 1:15 N-GFS Colossians 1:23 N-DFS Hebrews 4:13 N-NFS Hebrews 9:11 N-GFS 1 Peter 2:13 N-DFS 2 Peter 3:4 N-GFS Revelation 3:14 N-GFS |