Original: κτίσις

Transliteration: ktísis

Phonetic: ktis'-is

Short Definition: Building

- Original: κτίσις

- Transliteration: Ktisis

- Phonetic: ktis'-is

- Definition:

1. the act of founding, establishing, building etc

a. the act of creating, creation

b. creation i.e. thing created

1. of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation 1b

c. anything created 1b

d. after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called) 1b

e. the sum or aggregate of things created

f. institution, ordinance

- Origin: from G2936

- TDNT entry: 19:40,5

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From G2936; original formation (properly the act; by implication the thing literally or figuratively): - building creation creature ordinance.

Cognate: G2936, G2938, G2939