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κτίζω

ktízō · G2936 · Greek · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. To make or create something which has not existed before (to create, creation (in the NT, used exclusively of God’s activity in creation))

    Examples

    Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,

    Mark 13:19 “For those days will be such a time of tribulation as has not occurred since the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will again.

    Romans 1:25 For they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

How it’s used In 7 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

15 occurrences in 8 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

7 occurrences in 7 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 12 groups

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 6 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

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.

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.

In the other Testament 1 word
בָּרָא bârâʼ · H1254 · to create, to create (an event), to cause to happen
Greek κτίζω emphasizes the act of founding or forming something with an original, deliberate construction, while Hebrew בָּרָא specifically denotes divine creation (God as subject bringing something into existence from nothing or forming with sovereign authority), making it the theological counterpart in creation narratives.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To create, creation (in the NT, used exclusively of God’s activity in creation)42.35
κτίζω describes God's act of creating. Matthew 19:4 has Jesus answering, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,” the κτίσας naming this creating act by which God made humanity.
Word family 4 words

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

κτίζωktízō · G2936κτίσις ktísis · G2937 · creation, creature, what has been created · 19×κτίσμα ktísma · G2938 · creation, creature, what has been created · 4×κτίστης ktístēs · G2939 · creator · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἔκτισα; perfect passive ἐκτισμαι; 1 aorist passive ἐκτίσθην; the Sept. chiefly…
: 1 aorist ἔκτισα; perfect passive ἐκτισμαι; 1 aorist passive ἐκτίσθην; the Sept. chiefly for בָּרָא; properly, to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island (Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Diodorus, others); hence to found, a city, colony, state, etc. (Pindar and following; 1 Esdr. 4:53). In the Bible, to create: of God creating the world, man, etc., Mk 13:19; 1 Cor 11:9; Col 1:16 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 272 (255)); ; Eph 3:9; 1 Tim 4:3; Rev 4:11; Rev 10:6 (Deut 4:32; Eccl 12:1; often in O. T. Apocrypha, as Judith 13:18; Wis. 2:23 Wis. 11:18 (Wis 11:17); 3Macc. 2:9; (Josephus, Antiquities 1, 1, 1; Philo de decal. § 20)); absolutely, ὁ κτίσας, the creator, Rom 1:25; (Mt 19:4 Tr WH); equivalent to to form, shape, i. e. (for substance) completely to change, to transform (of the moral or new creation of the soul, as it is called), κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπί ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς, in intimate fellowship with Christ constituted to do good works (see ἐπί, B. 2 a. ζ.), Eph 2:10; τούς δύο εἰς ἕνα καινόν ἐνθρωπον, ibid. 15; τόν κτισθέντα κατά Θεόν, formed after God's likeness (see κατά, II. 3 c. δ.), Eph 4:24 (καρδίαν καθαράν κτίσον ἐν ἐμοί, Ps 50:12).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Make, Create15 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

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