ktēnem

Strong’sG2934

a beast of burden

stem ktēn-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κτῆνος, -ους, τό

(< κτάομαι, hence primarily a possession), [in LXX chiefly for בְּהֵמָה, Ge 1:25, al., also for מִקְנֶה, צֹנֵא, etc.;]

a beast, (in late Gk. esp.) a beast of burden: Lk 10:34 pl. (as chiefly in cl.), Ac 23:24, Re 18:13; of quadrupeds, as opp. to fishes and birds (cf. Ge 1:25), I Co 15:39.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2934 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidktay'-nos

property, i.e. (specially) a domestic animal

Fromfrom G2932;

King Jamesbeast.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κτῆνος, εος, τό,
(κτάομαι) mostly in plural κτήνεα, contraction κτήνη, flocks and herds, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. τὰ δημιοπληθῆ Refs 4th c.BC+; of beasts in general, Refs 1st c.AD+; opposed to ἄνθρωποι, Refs 3rd c.AD+; of swine, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 in singular, a single beast, as an ox or sheep, Refs 5th c.BC+; horse or mule for riding, NT; of a domestic animal, opposed to θηρίον, Refs 2nd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

animal1×animals1×cattle1×mounts1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	ktēnem	ktēneim
of, belonging to genitive	ktēneu	ktēneiu1×κτηνῶν
to, for dative	ktēne	ktēnei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

ktēnstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ktēne is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

ktēneiu“animals”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

1 Corinthians 15:39… allosas men anthrōpoiu, allosas de sarkas ktēneiu, allosas de sarkas ptēneiu, allosas de …… Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish …

ktēneim2×

Acts 23:24ktēneim tē parastēara hina epibibazarantois ton Paulon …Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely …

Revelation 18:13… elaiem kai semidalian kai siton kai ktēneim kai probateim, kai hippoiu kai redaiu …… oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies …

ktēnem1×

Luke 10:34… epibibazarantos de auton epi tem idiem ktēnem agata auton eis pandocheiem kai epimelita …… he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and …