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Lexicon :: Strong's G2770 - kerdainō

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κερδαίνω
Transliteration
kerdainō (Key)
Pronunciation
ker-dah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:672,428

Strong’s Definitions

κερδαίνω kerdaínō, ker-dah'-ee-no; from G2771; to gain (literally or figuratively):—(get) gain, win.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G2770 in the following manner: gain (13x), win (1x), won (1x), get gain (1x), variations of 'gain' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G2770 in the following manner: gain (13x), win (1x), won (1x), get gain (1x), variations of 'gain' (1x).

  1. to gain, acquire, to get gain

  2. metaph.

    1. of gain arising from shunning or escaping from evil (where we say "to spare one's self", "be spared")

    2. to gain any one i.e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, to gain one to faith in Christ

    3. to gain Christ's favour and fellowship

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κερδαίνω kerdaínō, ker-dah'-ee-no; from G2771; to gain (literally or figuratively):—(get) gain, win.
STRONGS G2770:
κερδαίνω: (future κερδήσω, James 4:13 Rec.bez elz L T Tr WH; see also below); 1 aorist ἐκέρδησα (an Ionic form from κερδάω, which later writers use for the earlier ἐκερδανα, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 740; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. ii., p. 215; Winers Grammar, 87 (83); (Veitch, under the word)), once 1 aorist subjunctive κερδάνω (1 Corinthians 9:21 L T Tr (but WH (cf. also Griesbach note) read the future κερδάνω, cf. Buttmann, 60 (53); § 139, 38)); 1 future passive κερδηθήσομαι (the subjunctive κερδηθήσωνται, 1 Peter 3:1 R G is a clerical error (cf. references under the word καίω, at the beginning), for which L T Tr WH have restored κερδηθήσονται (cf. Buttmann, § 139, 38)); (from Hesiod down); (from κέρδος); to gain, acquire; (Vulg. passim lucrifacio (also lucro, etc.));
a. properly: τόν κόσμον, Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25; money, Matthew 25:16 (L T WH),17,20,22; absolutely, to get gain, James 4:13.
b. metaphorically,
α. with nouns signifying loss, damage, injury, it is used of the gain arising from shunning or escaping from the evil (where we say to spare oneself, be spared): τήν ὕβριν ταύτην καί ζημίαν, Acts 27:21; τό γέ μιανθῆναι τάς χεῖρας κερδαίνειν, to avoid the crime of fratricide, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 2; ζημίαν, to escape a loss, Euripides, Cycl. 312; other examples in Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 139f
β. τινα, to gain anyone i. e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, which none but the placable enter, Matthew 18:15; to gain one to faith in Christ, 1 Peter 3:1; 1 Corinthians 9:19-22; Χριστόν, to gain Christ's favor and fellowship, Philippians 3:8. Not found in the O. T.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
16:26; 18:15; 25:16
Mark
8:36
Luke
9:25
Acts
27:21
1 Corinthians
9:19; 9:20; 9:21; 9:21; 9:22
Philippians
3:8
James
4:13; 4:13
1 Peter
3:1; 3:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2770 matches the Greek κερδαίνω (kerdainō),
which occurs 16 times in 15 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26 - For what does a man profit, if he should gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:15 - But if thy brother sin against thee, go, reprove him between thee and him alone. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:17 - In like manner also he that had received the two, he also gained two others.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:20 - And he that had received the five talents came to him and brought five other talents, saying, My lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:22 - And he also that had received the two talents came to him and said, My lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents besides them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:36 - For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:25 - For what shall a man profit if he shall have gained the whole world, and have destroyed, or come under the penalty of the loss of himself?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:21 - And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:20 - And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:21 - to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain those without law.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:22 - I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:8 - But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:13 - Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:1 - Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,
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