Word Summary
ktaomai: to acquire
Original Word: κτάομαιTransliteration: ktaomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ktah'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to acquire
Meaning: to acquire
Strong's Concordance
obtain, possess, purchase.
A primary verb; to get, i.e. Acquire (by any means; own) -- obtain, possess, provide, purchase.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2932: κτάομαικτάομαι,
κτῶμαι; future
κτήσομαι (
Luke 21:19 L Tr WH); 1 aorist
ἐκτησάμην; (from
Homer down); the
Sept. for
קָנָה;
to acquire, get or prucure a thing for oneself (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 260 (244)); (perfect
κέκτημαι,
to possess (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 274 (257) note); not found in the N. T.):
τί,
Matthew 10:9;
Acts 8:20;
ὅσα κτῶμαι, all my income,
Luke 18:12; with the genitive of price added (
Winer's Grammar, 206 (194)),
πολλοῦ,
Acts 22:28; with
ἐκ and the genitive of price (see
ἐκ, II. 4),
Acts 1:18;
τό ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος ἐν ἁγιασμῷ καί τιμή, to procure for himself his own vessel (i. e. for the satisfaction of the sexual passion; see
σκεῦος, 1) in sanctification and honor, i. e.
to marry a wife (opposed to the use of a harlot; the words
ἐν ἁγιασμῷ καί τιμή are added to express completely the idea of marrying in contrast with the baseness of procuring a harlot as his 'vessel'; cf.
κτᾶσθαι γυναῖκα, of marrying a wife,
Ruth 4:10; Sir. 36:29 (Sir. 33:26);
Xenophon, symp. 2, 10),
1 Thessalonians 4:4;
τάς ψυχάς ὑμῶν, the true life of your souls, your true lives, i. e. eternal life (cf. the opposite
ζημιουσθαι τήν ψυχήν αὐτοῦ under
ζημιόω),
Luke 21:19; cf. Meyer at the passage and
Winer's Grammar, p. 274 (257).