Word

κτάομαι

ktáomai · G2932 · Greek · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to get, to acquire, to gain

To acquire possession of something

Examples
Matthew 10:9 “Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
Luke 18:12 ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’
Acts 1:18 (Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
to save oneself, to protect oneself

(An idiom, literally: to acquire one’s soul, or: to acquire one’s life) To save oneself from grave danger or death

Examples
Luke 21:19 “By your endurance you will gain your lives.
sexual life

(An idiom, literally: to possess a vessel) A euphemistic manner of referring to sexual relations

Examples
1 Thessalonians 4:4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 5 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 2
Not stated (infinitive) 2
ἐγώI, we 1
οὗτοςthis 1
Not stated: I 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

7 occurrences in 9 groups

Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 6 groups

διάthrough+ χρῆμαriches 1
εἰςto+ ζώνηbelt 1
ἐκfrom+ μισθόςreward, wages 1
ἐνin+ ἁγιασμόςconsecration 1
ἐνin+ τιμήhonor 1
ἐνin+ ὑπομονήendurance, perseverance 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μήnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

εἴδωto know 1
νομίζωto suppose, to think 1
ἀποδεκατόωto give a tenth 1
ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

קָנָה qânâh · H7069 · to acquire, to obtain, to purchase: Hebrew קָנָה and Greek κτάομαι both denote the core act of acquiring or obtaining possession, whether through purchase, creation, or other means of coming to own something.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Sexual life23.63: κτάομαι can be used of the proper governance of one's own sexual life. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 instructs, “that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,” the κτᾶσθαι naming this governing of one's own body in holiness.
To get, to acquire, to gain57.58: The verb more commonly denotes acquiring or obtaining something. Matthew 10:9 has Jesus instructing the disciples, “Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,” the κτήσησθε naming this acquiring of provisions they were told to forgo.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κτάομαιktáomai · G2932κτῆμα ktēma · G2933 · property, possession · 4×κτῆνος ktēnos · G2934 · beast of burden, riding animal, cattle · 4×κτήτωρ ktḗtōr · G2935 · owner · 1×πάρεσις páresis · G3929 · disregard · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κτῶμαι; future κτήσομαι (Lk 21:19 L Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐκτησάμην; (from Homer down); the…

κτῶμαι; future κτήσομαι (Lk 21:19 L Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐκτησάμην; (from Homer down); the Sept. for קָנָה; to acquire, get or prucure a thing for oneself (cf. Winer's Grammar, 260 (244)); (perfect κέκτημαι, to possess (cf. Winer's Grammar, 274 (257) note); not found in the N. T.): τί, Mt 10:9; Acts 8:20; ὅσα κτῶμαι, all my income, Lk 18:12; with the genitive of price added (Winer's Grammar, 206 (194)), πολλοῦ, Acts 22:28; with ἐκ and the genitive of price (see ἐκ, II. 4), Acts 1:18; τό ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος ἐν ἁγιασμῷ καί τιμή, to procure for himself his own vessel (i. e. for the satisfaction of the sexual passion; see σκεῦος, 1) in sanctification and honor, i. e. to marry a wife (opposed to the use of a harlot; the words ἐν ἁγιασμῷ καί τιμή are added to express completely the idea of marrying in contrast with the baseness of procuring a harlot as his 'vessel'; cf. κτᾶσθαι γυναῖκα, of marrying a wife, Ruth 4:10; Sir. 36:29 (Sir. 33:26); Xenophon, symp. 2, 10), 1 Thess 4:4; τάς ψυχάς ὑμῶν, the true life of your souls, your true lives, i. e. eternal life (cf. the opposite ζημιουσθαι τήν ψυχήν αὐτοῦ under ζημιόω), Lk 21:19; cf. Meyer at the passage and Winer's Grammar, p. 274 (257).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Cause To Be Safe, Free from Danger1 occurrence Sexual Relations1 occurrence Take, Obtain, Gain, Lose6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0