Lexical 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 createProbably 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)); |