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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 - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - And he bought the parcel of land, where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his cattle and all his animals, and all his goods which he had gained in the land of Canaan, and went to a country away from the presence of his brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:1

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:19 - “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants of Pharaoh; give us seed, that we may live and not die, that the land may not be desolate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:20 - Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:22 - Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had rations allotted to them by Pharaoh, and they ate their rations which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Then Joseph said to the people, “Indeed I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Look, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - “in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:16 - Fear and dread will fall on them;
By the greatness of Your arm
They will be as still as a stone,
Till Your people pass over, O LORD,
Till the people pass over
Whom You have purchased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - ‘But if the priest buys a person with his money, he may eat it; and one who is born in his house may eat his food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - ‘And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - ‘But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - ‘But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - ‘And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - ‘Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - ‘And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - ‘In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:68

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:68 - “And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:6 - Do you thus deal with the LORD,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your Father, who bought you?
Has He not made you and established you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - “And I thought to inform you, saying, ‘Buy it back in the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you[fn] will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said, “I will redeem it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must also buy it from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate[fn] the name of the dead through his inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:8 - Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” So he took off his sandal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:10 - “Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brethren and from his position at the gate.[fn] You are witnesses this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - “But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:24 - And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:12 - and to masons and stonecutters, and for buying timber and hewn stone, to repair the damage of the house of the LORD, and for all that was paid out to repair the temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:6 - “to carpenters and builders and masons—and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - And I said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?” Then they were silenced and found nothing to say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - Indeed, I also continued the work on this wall, and we[fn] did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:2 - Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—
This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:54

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:54 - And He brought them to His holy border,
This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:13 - For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - A wise man will hear and increase learning,
And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:31 - Do not envy the oppressor,
And choose none of his ways;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:22 - Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it.
But the correction of fools is folly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why is there in the hand of a fool the purchase price of wisdom,
Since he has no heart for it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:21 - He who begets a scoffer does so to his sorrow,
And the father of a fool has no joy.

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