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Lexicon :: Strong's G2936 - ktizō

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κτίζω
Transliteration
ktizō (Key)
Pronunciation
ktid'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably akin to κτάομαι (G2932) (through the idea of proprietor-ship of the manufacturer)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:1000,481

Strong’s Definitions

κτίζω ktízō, ktid'-zo; probably akin to G2932 (through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. found (form originally):—create, Creator, make.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G2936 in the following manner: create (12x), Creator (1x), make (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G2936 in the following manner: create (12x), Creator (1x), make (1x).

  1. to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island

    1. to found a city, colony, state

  2. to create

    1. of God creating the worlds

    2. to form, shape, i.e. to completely change or transform

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κτίζω ktízō, ktid'-zo; probably akin to G2932 (through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. found (form originally):—create, Creator, make.
STRONGS G2936:
κτίζω: 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., Mark 13:19; 1 Corinthians 11:9; Colossians 1:16 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 272 (255)); Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 3:9; 1 Timothy 4:3; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 10:6 (Deuteronomy 4:32; Ecclesiastes 12:1; often in O. T. Apocrypha, as Judith 13:18; Wis. 2:23 Wis. 11:18 (Wisdom 11:17); 3Macc. 2:9; (Josephus, Antiquities 1, 1, 1; Philo de decal. § 20)); absolutely, ὁ κτίσας, the creator, Romans 1:25; (Matthew 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.), Ephesians 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.), Ephesians 4:24 (καρδίαν καθαράν κτίσον ἐν ἐμοί, Psalm 50:12 (Ps. 51:12)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
4:32
Psalms
50:12; 51:12
Ecclesiastes
12:1
Matthew
19:4
Mark
13:19
Romans
1:25
1 Corinthians
11:9
Ephesians
2:10; 3:9; 4:24
Colossians
1:16; 3:10
1 Timothy
4:3
Revelation
4:11; 10:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2936 matches the Greek κτίζω (ktizō),
which occurs 15 times in 13 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that he who created[fn] them in the beginning made them male and female,

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“For those will be days of tribulation, the kind that hasn’t been from the beginning of creation until now and never will be again.

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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.

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Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

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he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

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and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.

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and to put on[fn] the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

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For everything was created by him,

in heaven and on earth,

the visible and the invisible,

whether thrones or dominions

or rulers or authorities —

all things have been created through him and for him.

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and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your[fn] Creator.

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They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

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Our Lord and God,[fn]

you are worthy to receive

glory and honor and power,

because you have created all things,

and by your will

they exist and were created.

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He swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will no longer be a delay,

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