κτίσις
creation
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 8 times (42%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 7 times (37%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (21%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 19 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2937 appears — 19 distinct verses across 9 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 10:6 κτίσεως n gen sg fem But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.
- Mark 13:19 κτίσεως n gen sg fem For 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 16:15 κτίσει n dat sg fem He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
Romans 7 verses
- Romans 1:20 κτίσεως n gen sg fem For 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 1:25 κτίσει n dat sg fem who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
- Romans 8:19 κτίσεως n gen sg fem For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Romans 8:20 κτίσις n nom sg fem For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
- Romans 8:21 κτίσις n nom sg fem that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
- Romans 8:22 κτίσις n nom sg fem For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
- Romans 8:39 κτίσις n nom sg fem nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 1:15 κτίσεως n gen sg fem who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
- Colossians 1:23 κτίσει n dat sg fem if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 4:13 κτίσις n nom sg fem There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Hebrews 9:11 κτίσεως n gen sg fem But 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,
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“creation” is the headline sense of the Greek noun κτισις (ktísis). First canonically at Mark 10:6, it enters the text early. With 19 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Romans, which alone accounts for 37% of its uses. It clusters with κτιζω, κτισμα and κτιστης under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2937 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 7 verses 37%
- Mark 3 verses 16%
- Colossians 2 verses 11%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 19 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 11 verses · 58%
- Gospels 3 verses · 16%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 11%
- Johannine 1 verse · 5%
- Revelation 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Creature 10×, Creation 6×
- American Standard Version: Creation 13×, Creature 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Creation 12×, Creature 3×, All creation 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Creation 15×, Creature 2×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2937 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2937 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2937 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2937 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the act of founding, establishing, building etc
Word origin
Derived from κτιζω (ktízō) (G2936) — to create.
From G2936 ; original formation (properly the act; by implication the thing literally or figuratively): - building creation creature ordinance.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2937 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κτίσεως ktíseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Mark 10:6 | 8 |
| κτίσις ktísis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 8:20 | 7 |
| κτίσει ktísei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 16:15 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2937, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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