κτίσις
ktisis
creation
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word κτίσις (ktisis) is defined as "creation." It appears 19 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in the text. The word κτίσμα (ktisma), a related form, is also mentioned, but it is likely a variant of κτίσις. The meaning of κτίσις is straightforward, referring to the act or process of creating something. In the context of the Bible, it often describes the creation of the world or the universe. The word can also be used to describe the creation of living things, such as humans or animals. The significance of κτίσις lies in its connection to the biblical account of creation, which is a central theme in the text. The word highlights the idea that the world and all living things were created by a divine power, and it underscores the importance of understanding and appreciating the natural world.
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Occurrences in Scripture
19 total occurrences across the text
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Mark 13:19For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
Romans 8:19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Romans 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Colossians 1:15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Colossians 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Hebrews 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
Hebrews 9:11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
Romans 1:25who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
1 Peter 2:13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
2 Peter 3:4and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
Revelation 3:14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things: