ΚΤΙΣΤΗΝ, κτιστην
KTISTĒN, ktistēn
Sounds Like: ktis-TEEN
Translations: creator, a creator
From the root: ΚΤΙΣΤΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a creator or founder. It is used to describe someone who brings something into existence or establishes something. In a theological context, it often refers to God as the Creator of all things. It is used here in the accusative case, indicating it is the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2939 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:16
Clement of Rome
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 11:5
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 8:173
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 11:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΤΙΣΤΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΤΙΣΤΑ — creator, a creator, founder, a founder
- ΚΤΙΣΤΗ — creator, a creator, founder, a founder
- ΚΤΙΣΤΗΣ — Creator, a Creator, Founder, a Founder
- ΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ — (of) creator, (of) a creator, (of) founder, (of) a founder
- ΤΟΝΚΤΙΣΤΗΝ — the Creator, a Creator
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