Word Summary
ktizō: to build, create
Original Word: κτίζωTransliteration: ktizō
Phonetic Spelling: (ktid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to build, create
Meaning: to build, create
Strong's Concordance
to create
Probably akin to ktaomai (through the idea of proprietorship of the manufacturer); to fabricate, i.e. Found (form originally) -- create, Creator, make.
see GREEK ktaomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2936: κτίζωκτίζω: 1 aorist
ἔκτισα; perfect passive
ἐκτισμαι; 1 aorist passive
ἐκτίσθην; the
Sept. chiefly for
בָּרָא; properly,
to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island (
Homer,
Herodotus,
Thucydides,
Diodorus, others); hence
to found, a city, colony, state, etc. (
Pindar and following; 1 Esdr. 4:53). In the Bible,
to create: of God creating the world, man, etc.,
Mark 13:19;
1 Corinthians 11:9;
Colossians 1:16 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 272 (255));
; Ephesians 3:9; 1 Timothy 4:3; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 10:6 (Deuteronomy 4:32; Ecclesiastes 12:1; often in O. T. Apocrypha, as Judith 13:18; Wis. 2:23 Wis. 11:18 (); 3Macc. 2:9; (Josephus, Antiquities 1, 1, 1; Philo de decal. § 20)); absolutely, ὁ κτίσας, the creator, Romans 1:25; (Matthew 19:4 Tr WH); equivalent to to form, shape, i. e. (for substance) completely to change, to transform (of the moral or new creation of the soul, as it is called), κτισθέντες ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἐπί ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς, in intimate fellowship with Christ constituted to do good works (see ἐπί, B. 2 a. ζ.), Ephesians 2:10; τούς δύο εἰς ἕνα καινόν ἐνθρωπον, ibid. 15; τόν κτισθέντα κατά Θεόν, formed after God's likeness (see κατά, II. 3 c. δ.), Ephesians 4:24 (καρδίαν καθαράν κτίσον ἐν ἐμοί, Psalm 50:12 ()).