Ancient Greek

Noun

κτῐ́σῐς • ‎(ktísis) f ‎(genitive κτῐ́σεως or κτῐ́σιος); third declension

1. founding, settling
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.5
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 12.190
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 9.1.4
   1. an easy achievement
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.83
   2. creation
      • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 1.20
      • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 10.6
        • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 13.19
2. created thing, creature
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judith 9.12
   • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 16.15
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 8.19
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Tobit 8.5
3. authority created or ordained
   • New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 2.13

Declension

Synonyms

• (an easy achievement): πρᾶξῐς ‎(prâxis)

Descendants

• English: autoctisis

References

• κτίσις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κτίσις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κτίσις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κτίσις in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2937”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • creation idem, page 183.
  • establishment idem, page 283.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • settlement idem, page 758.