Original Word: κτίσις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: ktisis
Phonetic Spelling: (ktis'-is)
Short Definition: creation, creature, institution
Definition: (often of the founding of a city), (a) abstr: creation, (b) concr: creation, creature, institution; always of Divine work, (c) an institution, ordinance.

Cognate: 2937 ktísis – properly, creation (creature) which is founded from nothing (this is also the sense of this term from Homer on); creation out of nothing (Lat ex nihilo). See 2936 (ktizō) and 2939 /ktístēs ("the Creator") for lengthy discussion on "creation-facts."

STRONGS NT 2937: κτίσις

κτίσις, 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.))

creation, creature

From ktizo; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively) -- building, creation, creature, ordinance.

see GREEK ktizo

κτισει κτίσει κτισεως κτίσεως κτίσεώς κτισις κτίσις ktisei ktísei ktiseos ktiseōs ktíseos ktíseōs ktisis ktísisInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts

Strong's Greek 2937
19 Occurrences

κτίσει — 4 Occ.
κτίσεως — 8 Occ.
κτίσις — 7 Occ.

Mark 10:6 N-GFS
GRK: δὲ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἄρσεν καὶ
NAS: But from the beginning of creation, [God] MADE
KJV: the beginning of the creation God
INT: however [the] beginning of creation male and

Mark 13:19 N-GFS
GRK: ἀπ' ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἣν ἔκτισεν
NAS: the beginning of the creation which
KJV: the beginning of the creation which
INT: from [the] beginning of creation which created

Mark 16:15 N-DFS
GRK: πάσῃ τῇ κτίσει
NAS: the gospel to all creation.
KJV: the gospel to every creature.
INT: to all the creation

Romans 1:20 N-GFS
GRK: αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου τοῖς
NAS: For since the creation of the world
KJV: from the creation of the world
INT: of him from [the] creation of [the] world by the

Romans 1:25 N-DFS
GRK: ἐλάτρευσαν τῇ κτίσει παρὰ τὸν
NAS: and served the creature rather than
KJV: served the creature more than
INT: served the created thing beyond the [one]

Romans 8:19 N-GFS
GRK: ἀποκαραδοκία τῆς κτίσεως τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν
NAS: For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly
KJV: the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth
INT: earnest expectation of the creation the revelation

Romans 8:20 N-NFS
GRK: ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη οὐχ
NAS: For the creation was subjected
KJV: For the creature was made subject
INT: futility the creation was subjected not

Romans 8:21 N-NFS
GRK: αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις ἐλευθερωθήσεται ἀπὸ
NAS: that the creation itself also
KJV: Because the creature itself also
INT: itself the creation will be freed from

Romans 8:22 N-NFS
GRK: πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις συστενάζει καὶ
NAS: that the whole creation groans
KJV: that the whole creation groaneth and
INT: all the creation groans together and

Romans 8:39 N-NFS
GRK: οὔτε τις κτίσις ἑτέρα δυνήσεται
NAS: other created thing, will be able
KJV: other creature, shall be able
INT: nor any created thing other will be able

2 Corinthians 5:17 N-NFS
GRK: Χριστῷ καινὴ κτίσις τὰ ἀρχαῖα
NAS: [he is] a new creature; the old things
KJV: [he is] a new creature: old things
INT: Christ [he is] a new creation the old things

Galatians 6:15 N-NFS
GRK: ἀλλὰ καινὴ κτίσις
NAS: uncircumcision, but a new creation.
KJV: but a new creature.
INT: but a new creation

Colossians 1:15 N-GFS
GRK: πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως
NAS: the firstborn of all creation.
KJV: the firstborn of every creature:
INT: [the] firstborn of all creation

Colossians 1:23 N-DFS
GRK: ἐν πάσῃ κτίσει τῇ ὑπὸ
NAS: in all creation under
KJV: every creature which is under
INT: in all creation under

Hebrews 4:13 N-NFS
GRK: οὐκ ἔστιν κτίσις ἀφανὴς ἐνώπιον
NAS: And there is no creature hidden
KJV: is there any creature that is not manifest
INT: not there is a created thing hidden before

Hebrews 9:11 N-GFS
GRK: ταύτης τῆς κτίσεως
NAS: that is to say, not of this creation;
KJV: not of this building;
INT: of this creation

1 Peter 2:13 N-DFS
GRK: πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει διὰ τὸν
NAS: human institution, whether
KJV: to every ordinance of man
INT: to every human institution for the sake of the

2 Peter 3:4 N-GFS
GRK: ἀπ' ἀρχῆς κτίσεως
NAS: as it was from the beginning of creation.
KJV: the beginning of the creation.
INT: from [the] beginning of [the] creation

Revelation 3:14 N-GFS
GRK: ἀρχὴ τῆς κτίσεως τοῦ θεοῦ
NAS: the Beginning of the creation of God,
KJV: the beginning of the creation of God;
INT: beginning of the creation of God

19 Occurrences