Strong's #2937: ktisis (pronounced ktis'-is)
from 2936; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally or figuratively):--building, creation, creature, ordinance.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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ktisis
1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
1a) the act of creating, creation
1b) creation, i.e. thing created
1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
1b1a) anything created
1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)
1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created
1c) institution, ordinance
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from G2936
Citing in TDNT: 3:1000, 481
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Mark 10:6: "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male"
Mark 13:19: "not from the beginning of the creation which God created"
Mark 16:15: "the gospel to every creature."
Romans 1:20: "invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the"
Romans 1:25: "and served the creature more than the Creator, who"
Romans 8:19: "the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the"
Romans 8:20: "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but"
Romans 8:21: "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the"
Romans 8:22: "we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until"
Romans 8:39: "nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from"
2 Corinthians 5:17: "be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things"
Galatians 6:15: "uncircumcision, but a new creature."
Colossians 1:15: "God, the firstborn of every creature:"
Colossians 1:23: "and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof"
Hebrews 4:13: "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but"
Hebrews 9:11: "that is to say, not of this building;"
1 Peter 2:13: "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:"
2 Peter 3:4: "continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
Revelation 3:14: "the beginning of the creation of God;"
