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Lexicon :: Strong's G2932 - ktaomai

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κτάομαι
Transliteration
ktaomai (Key)
Pronunciation
ktah'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary verb
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Strong’s Definitions

κτάομαι ktáomai, ktah'-om-ahee; a primary verb; to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own):—obtain, possess, provide, purchase.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G2932 in the following manner: possess (3x), purchase (2x), provide (1x), obtain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G2932 in the following manner: possess (3x), purchase (2x), provide (1x), obtain (1x).

  1. to acquire, get, or procure a thing for one's self, to possess

    1. to marry a wife

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κτάομαι ktáomai, ktah'-om-ahee; a primary verb; to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own):—obtain, possess, provide, purchase.
STRONGS G2932:
κτάομαι, κτῶμαι; future κτήσομαι (Luke 21:19 L Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐκτησάμην; (from Homer down); the Sept. for קָנָה; to acquire, get or procure 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, Matthew 10:9; Acts 8:20; ὅσα κτῶμαι, all my income, Luke 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 Thessalonians 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), Luke 21:19; cf. Meyer at the passage and Winer's Grammar, p. 274 (257).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ruth
4:10
Matthew
10:9
Luke
18:12; 21:19; 21:19
Acts
1:18; 8:20; 22:28
1 Thessalonians
4:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2932 matches the Greek κτάομαι (ktaomai),
which occurs 81 times in 76 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:1–Pro 17:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Adam[fn] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[fn] She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth[fn] a man.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.[fn] There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - For a hundred pieces of silver,[fn] he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:16 - terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone— until your people pass by, LORD, until the people you bought[fn] pass by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - “ ‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - “ ‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:6 - Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator,[fn] who made you and formed you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[fn] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[fn] dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:8 - So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[fn] of silver for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents[fn] of silver and built a city on the hill, calling it Samaria, after Shemer, the name of the former owner of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and blocks of dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and said: “As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - Instead, I devoted myself to the work on this wall. All my men were assembled there for the work; we[fn] did not acquire any land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 - Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 - And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31 - Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:22 - Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:21 - To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.

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