Lexical Summary ktisis: creation (the act or the product) Original Word: κτίσιςTransliteration: ktisis Phonetic Spelling: (ktis'-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: creation (the act or the product) Meaning: creation (the act or the product) Strong's Concordance creation, creatureFrom ktizo; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively) -- building, creation, creature, ordinance. see GREEK ktizo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2937: κτίσιςκτίσις, κτίσεως, ἡ (κτίζω), in Greek writings the act of founding, establishing, building, etc.; in the N. T. (Vulg. everywherecreatura (yet Hebrews 9:11creatio)) 1. the act of creating, creation: τοῦ κόσμου, Romans 1:20. 2. equivalent to κτίσμα, creation i. e. thing created (cf. Winers Grammar, 32); used a. of individual things and beings, a creature, a creation: Romans 1:25; Hebrews 4:13; any created thing, Romans 8:39; after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called חֲדָשָׁה בִּרִיָה (cf. Schöttgen, Horae Hebr 1:328, 704f)), καινή κτίσις is used of a man regenerated through Christ, Galatians 6:15; 2 Corinthians 5:17. b. collectively, the sum or aggregate of created things: Revelation 3:14 (on which see ἀρχή, 3; (ἡ κτίσις τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Teaching of the Twelve etc. c. 16 [ET])); ὅλῃ ἡ κτίσις, Wis. 19:6; πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις, Judith 16:14; and without the article (cf. Grimm on 3 Macc. ( 3. an institution, ordinance: 1 Peter 2:13; cf. Huther at the passage ((Pindar, others.)) |