noun · masculine
ktistos
Strong’sG2939
a founder, creator, God
stem ktist-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
κτίστης, -ου, ὁ
(< κτίζω), [in LXX: II Ki 22:32 (Heb., al.), Jth 9:12, Si 24:8, II, IV Mac5*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2939 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidktis-tace'
a founder, i.e. God (as author of all things)
Fromfrom G2936;
King JamesCreator.
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
founder, Refs 4th c.BC+; of Apollo as founder of Cyrene, Refs; ὁ τῆς στοᾶς κ., i.e. Zeno, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 builder, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II restorer, τῆς πατρίδος Refs 1st c.AD+
III LXX
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 nominative | ktistos | ktistois |
| object accusative | ktiston | ktistoin |
| direct address vocative | ktistor | ktistoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ktistou | ktistoiu |
| to, for dative | ktisto1×κτίστῃ | ktistoi |
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
ktisto 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ktisto“creator”to, fordative singular1×
1 Peter 4:19… kata tem thelēmem tou theou pisto ktisto paratitholōr tain psuchain autoiu en agathopoia.… entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.