Strong's #2770: kerdaino (pronounced ker-dah'-ee-no)

from 2771; to gain (literally or figuratively):--(get) gain, win.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kerdainō

1) to gain, acquire, to get gain

2) metaphorically

2a) of gain arising from shunning or escaping from evil (where we say "to spare one' s self" , "be spared" )

2b) to gain any one, i.e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, to gain one to faith in Christ

2c) to gain Christ' s favour and fellowship

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2771

Citing in TDNT: 3:672, 428

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Matthew 16:26: "is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and"
Matthew 18:15: "alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother."
Matthew 25:17: "that had received two, he also gained other two."
Matthew 25:20: "unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five"
Matthew 25:22: "unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents"
Mark 8:36: "shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and"
Luke 9:25: "what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and"
Acts 27:21: "from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss."
1 Corinthians 9:19: "men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more."
1 Corinthians 9:20: "as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law,"
1 Corinthians 9:20: "under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;"
1 Corinthians 9:21: "under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law."
1 Corinthians 9:22: "I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things"
Philippians 3:8: "them but dung, that I may win Christ,"
James 4:13: "and buy and sell, and get gain:"
1 Peter 3:1: "they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the"