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κτήτωρ

ktḗtōr · G2935 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. owner

    (Derivative of κτάομαι ‘to acquire,’) One who owns or possesses property

    Examples

    Acts 4:34 For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
אָדוֹן ʼâdôwn · H113 · lord, master, owner
Hebrew term for master/owner/lord that can denote ownership of property or persons, serving as a functional cross-linguistic equivalent for κτήτωρ in contexts where possession and ownership are in view, though the Hebrew term often carries broader connotations of authority and lordship beyond mere ownership.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Owner57.11
κτήτωρ names an owner of property. Acts 4:34 describes the early church, “there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales,” the κτήτορες naming these owners who sold their property for the needy.
Word family 5 words

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

κτάομαι ktáomai · G2932 · to get, to acquire, to gain · 7×κτῆμα ktēma · G2933 · property, possession · 4×κτῆνος ktēnos · G2934 · beast of burden, riding animal, cattle · 4×κτήτωρktḗtōr · G2935πάρεσις páresis · G3929 · disregard · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κτητορος, ὁ (κτάομαι), a possessor: Acts 4:34. (Diodorus excpt., p. 599, 17; Clement of…
κτητορος, ὁ (κτάομαι), a possessor: Acts 4:34. (Diodorus excpt., p. 599, 17; Clement of Alexandria; Byzantine writings.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Have, Possess, Property, Owner1 occurrence

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

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