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Strong's #2936 - κτίζω
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- to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island
- to found a city, colony, state
- to create
- of God creating the worlds
- to form, shape, i.e. to completely change or transform
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κτίζω,
Emp. 23.6, etc.: fut. - ίσω A. Ch. 1060: aor. ἔκτῐσα Od. 11.263, etc.; poet. ἔκτισσα Pi. P. 1.62, A. Pers. 289 (lyr.), κτίσσα Il. 20.216, κτίσα Pi. P. 5.89: pf. ἔκτῐκα Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 1.8, D.S. 7.5, 15.13: —
Med., poet. aor. ἐκτίσσατο Pi. O. 10(11).25, Fr. 1.4 (ἐκτής - codd.): —
Pass., fut. κτισθήσομαι Str. Chr. 5.38, D.H. 1.56: aor. ἐκτίσθην Th. 1.12, etc.: pf. ἔκτισμαι Hdt. 4.46, Hp. Art. 45, E. Fr. 360.9: —
1. people a country, build houses and cities in it, κτίσσε δὲ Δαρδανίην Il.l.c.; κ. χώρην, νῆσον, Hdt. 1.149, 3.49.
2. of a city, found, build, Θήβης ἕδος ἔκτισαν Od.l.c., cf. Hdt. 1.167, 168, Th. 6.4, PCair.Zen. 169 (iii B.C.); ἀποικίαν A. Pr. 815: — Pass., to be founded, Σμύρνην τὴν ἀπὸ Κολοφῶνος κτισθεῖσαν founded by emigrants from Colophon, Hdt. 1.16, cf. 7.153, 8.62; μήτε ἄστεα μήτε τείχεα ἐκτισμένα no fixed cities or walls, Id. 4.46; - ομένη πόλις Phld. Rh. 2.155 S.
3. κ. ἄλσος plant a grove, Pi. P. 5.89; βωμόν set up an altar, Id. O. 7.42; ἑορτάν, ἀγῶνα, found, establish it, ib. 6.69, 10(11).25 (Med.); τὸν Κύρνον.. κτίσαι, ἥρων ἐόντα establish his worship, Hdt. 1.167; δαῖτάς τινι A. Ch. 484 (Pass.); τάφον τινί S. Ant. 1101; αἵρεσιν Phld. Rh. 1.77 S.; σύνοδον IG 22.1343.12 (i B.C.).
4. produce, create, bring into being, γόνῳ τινά A. Supp. 172 (lyr.); bring about, τελευτήν ib. 140 (lyr.), cf. Ch. 441 (lyr.); ὁ τὴν φιλίην ἐκτικώς Lyr.Alex.Adesp. l.c.; of painters, δένδρεα.. καὶ ἀνέρας ἠδὲ γυναῖκας Emp.l.c.; ἵπποισι τὸν χαλινὸν κτίσας having invented it, S. OC 715 (lyr.).
5. make so and so, ἐλεύθερον κ. τινά A. Ch. 1060; ἔνθεον κτίσας φρένα Id. Eu. 17, cf. 714; ποτανὰν εἴ σέ τις θεῶν κτίσαι E. Supp. 620 (lyr.), cf. A. Pers. 289 (lyr.).
6. perpetrate a deed, S. Tr. 898. (Cf. Skt. kséti 'reside', k[snull ]itís (= cross κτίσις) 'habitation'.)
κτίζω: 1 aorist ἔκτισα; perfect passive ἐκτισμαι; 1 aorist passive ἐκτίσθην; the Sept. chiefly for בָּרָא; properly, to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island (Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Diodorus, others); hence to found, a city, colony, state, etc. (Pindar and following; 1 Esdr. 4:53). In the Bible, to create: of God creating the world, man, etc., Mark 13:19; 1 Corinthians 11:9; Colossians 1:16 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 272 (255));
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κτίζω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1254, Psalms 51:10, al.; also for H7069, Genesis 14:19, Proverbs 8:22; H3335, Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 46:11; Wisdom of Solomon 2:23, Sirach 1:4; Sirach 1:9 (and freq.), 1 Esdras 4:53, a1.;]
1. in cl., to people or found a region or city (1Es, l.c.).
2. In LXX and NT, of God, to create: Mark 13:19, 1 Corinthians 11:9, Colossians 1:16; Colossians 3:10 Ephesians 3:9, 1 Timothy 4:3, Revelation 4:11; Revelation 10:6; ὁ κτίσας , Matthew 19:4 (WH, R, mg.), Romans 1:25; of the divine operation on the soul, Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 2:15; Ephesians 4:24 (cf. Ps., l.c.).†
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κτίζω in the sense of ";found"; a city or colony, as in 1 Esdras 4:53, may be illustrated from an inscr., probably to be assigned to B.C. 69–8, which is reproduced in P Fay p. 48.1 κτ [ι ]σθέντος τοῦ σημαινομένου ἱεροῦ : cf. also the Alexandrian erotic fragment P Grenf I. 1.4 (ii/B.C.) ὁ τὴν φιλίαν ἐκτικὼς ἔλαβέ με ἔρως, ";love the stablisher of friendship overcame me."; The usage in this last passage approximates more nearly to the distinctive Biblical usage of the word, ";create,"; ";form,"; which occurs again in the imprecatory tablet Wünsch AF 4.1 (iii/A.D.) ἐξορκίζω σε ὅστ [ι ]ς ποτ᾽ εἷ, νεκυδαῖμον, τὸν θεὸν τὸν κτίσαντα γῆν κ [α ]ὶ οὐρανὸν Ἰωνα.
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