Word Summary
ktisma: a creature
Original Word: κτίσμαTransliteration: ktisma
Phonetic Spelling: (ktis'-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a creature
Meaning: a creature
Strong's Concordance
creature.
From ktizo; an original formation (concretely), i.e. Product (created thing) -- creature.
see GREEK ktizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2938: κτίσμακτίσμα,
κτισματος,
τό (
κτίζω);
thing founded; created thing; (
Vulg.creatura) (
A. V. creature):
1 Timothy 4:4;
Revelation 5:13;
Revelation 8:9 (Wis. 9:2 Wis. 13:5); contextually and metaphorically,
κτίσμα Θεοῦ, transformed by divine power to a moral newness of soul, spoken of true Christians as created anew by regeneration (others take it here unrestrictedly),
James 1:18 (see
ἀπαρχή, metaphorically, a.; also
κτίζω under the end,
κτίσις, 2 a.);
τά ἐν ἀρχή κτισματα Θεοῦ, of the Israelites, Sir. 36:20 (15). ((
Strabo,
Dionysius Halicarnassus))