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Strong's G2937 · Greek

κτίσις

ktisis · ktis'-is

from 2936; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

κτίσις (G2937)

19 κτίσις , -εως, ἡ ( κτίζω ), [in LXX: Ps 103 (104):24 ( קִנְיָן ), Pr 1:13 A ( הוֹן ), To 8:5 , Wi 2:6 , Si 16:17 , III Mac 2:2 , al.;] a founding , settling , foundation (cl.). In LXX and NT, the act of creating , creation : Mk 10:6 (Swete, in l.), Mk 13:19 , Ro 1:20 , II Pe 3:4 ; that which has been created , creation : Ro 1:25 8:39 , He 4:13 ; καινὴ κ. , II Co 5:17 , Ga 6:15 ; πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κ. (Hort., in l.), I Pe 2:13 ; collectively, of the sum of created things ( Wi 19:6 , Jth 16:14 ), Mk 16:[15] , Col 1:15 , 23 , He 9:11 , Re 3:14 ; of the irrational creation, Ro 8:19-22 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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