noun · neuter
ktismem
Strong’sG2938
a created thing, creature
stem ktism-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
** κτίσμα, -τος, τό
(< κτίζω), [in LXX: Wi 9:2 13:5 14:11, Si 36:20 (17), 38:34, III Mac 5:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2938 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidktis'-mah
an original formation (concretely), i.e. product (created thing)
Fromfrom G2936;
King Jamescreature.
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
colony, foundation, Refs 1st c.BC+; also, of a temple, Refs 1st c.AD+: generally, building, Refs 4th c.AD+
2 ={κτίσις}LXX+NT
II ={κτίσις}Refs
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.
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 | ktismem1×κτίσμα | ktismeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | ktismeu | ktismeiu2×κτισμάτων |
| to, for dative | ktisme | ktismei |
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
ktisme 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
ktismem“created”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Timothy 4:4“created”hoti pantem ktismem theou kalem, kai oudenem apoblētem meta …For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
ktismeiu“creatures”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
James 1:18“creatures”… arō nin aparchan tinan teiu autou ktismeiu.… birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
Revelation 8:9kai apothnēskata tem tritem teiu ktismeiu teiu en ta thalassa, teim echarōnteim …a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a …
ktismem1×
Revelation 5:13kai pantem ktismem hem en to ourano kai epi …And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and …