κτῆσις
possession, property
Where this word appears
Every passage where κτῆσις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 33 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 23:4 κτῆσις I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.
- Genesis 23:9 κτῆσις And let him give me the double cave which he has, which is in a part of his field, let him give it me for the money it is worth for possession of a burying-place among you.
- Genesis 23:18 κτῆσις to Abraam for a possession, before the sons of Chet, and all that entered into the city.
- Genesis 23:20 κτῆσις So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraam for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Chet.
- Genesis 36:43 κτῆσις chief Magediel, chief Zaphoin. These are the chiefs of Edom in their dwelling-places in the land of their possession; this is Esau, the father of Edom.
- Genesis 46:6 κτῆσις And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Chanaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him.
- Genesis 49:30 κτῆσις in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre.
- Genesis 49:32 κτῆσις in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, purchased of the sons of Chet.
- Genesis 50:13 κτῆσις So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.
- Leviticus 14:34 κτῆσις Whenever you⌃ shall enter into the land of the Chananites, which I give you for a possession, and I shall put the plague of leprosy in the houses of the land of your possession;
- Leviticus 20:24 κτῆσις and I said to you, You⌃ shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession, even a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all people.
- Leviticus 25:10 κτῆσις And you⌃ shall sanctify the year, the fifties year, and you⌃ shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and you⌃ shall go each to his family.
- Leviticus 25:13 κτῆσις In the year of the release even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession.
- Leviticus 25:16 κτῆσις According as there may be a greater number of years he shall increase the value of his possession, and according as there may be a less number of years he shall lessen the value of his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to you.
- Judges 6:5 κτῆσις For they and their stock came up, and their tents were with them, as the locust in multitude, and there was no number to them and their camels; and they came to the land of Israel, and laid it waste.
- Judges 18:21 κτῆσις So they turned and departed, and put their children and their property and their baggage before them.
- 2 Kings 3:17 κτῆσις For thus says the Lord, You⌃ shall not see wind, neither shall you⌃ see rain, yet this valley shall be filled with water, and you⌃, and your flocks, and your cattle shall drink.
- 2 Chronicles 14:14 κτῆσις And they destroyed their towns roundabout Gedor; for a terror of the Lord was upon them: and they spoiled all their cities, for they had much spoil.
- Ezra 8:21 κτῆσις And I proclaimed there a fast, at the river Aue, that we should humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our children, and for all our property.
- Job 36:33 κτῆσις The Lord will declare concerning this to his friend: but there is a portion also for unrighteousness.
- Psalms 103:24 κτῆσις How great are your works, O Lord! in wisdom have you wrought them all: the earth is filled with your creation.
- Psalms 104:21 κτῆσις He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;
- Proverbs 1:13 κτῆσις let us seize on his valuable property, and let us fill our houses with spoils:
- Proverbs 8:18 κτῆσις Wealth and glory belong to me; yes, abundant possessions and righteousness.
- Proverbs 10:15 κτῆσις The wealth of rich men is a strong city; but poverty is the ruin of the ungodly.
- Ecclesiastes 2:7 κτῆσις I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 39:7 κτῆσις Behold, Anameel the son of Salom your father's brother is coming to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth: for you have the right to take it as a purchase.
- Jeremiah 39:11 κτῆσις And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;
- Jeremiah 39:12 κτῆσις and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father's brother's son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.
- Jeremiah 39:14 κτῆσις Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and you shall put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.
- Jeremiah 39:16 κτῆσις And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,
- Ezekiel 38:12 κτῆσις to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.
- Ezekiel 38:13 κτῆσις Sabba, and Daedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to you, You are come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: you have gathered your multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.
About this word
About this word
κτῆσις (ktē̂sis), “possession, property,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 33 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →