kerdainō · gain

What it means

kerdainō (κερδαίνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “gain”.

Win.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To acquire money or goods.
2. To bring a person to God or win them back, like gaining something precious.
3. To be spared harm or a loss.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I might win ×5
• gained ×5
• gain ×2
• he gains ×2
• make a profit ×1
• spared yourselves ×1
• they may be won ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×5
• Philippians×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 16:26

  For what will it profit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?

• Matthew 18:15

  And if your brother sins against you, go, reprove him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

• Matthew 25:16

  the one who had received the five talents went and worked with them and gained another five.

• Matthew 25:17

  In the same way the one with the two gained another two.

• Matthew 25:20

  And the one who had received the five talents came up and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Master, you handed over to me five talents; look, I have gained another five talents.’

• Matthew 25:22

  And the one with the two talents also came up and said, ‘Master, you handed over to me two talents; look, I have gained another two talents.’

• Mark 8:36

  For what does it profit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

• Luke 9:25

  For what is a person benefited if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

• Acts 27:21

  And as there was much lack of food, then Paul, standing in their midst, said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete and so spared yourselves this damage and loss.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  For though I am free from all, I enslaved myself to all, so that I might win the more people.

• 1 Corinthians 9:20

  And I became to the Jews as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those under the law as under the law (not being myself under the law), so that I might win those under the law;

• 1 Corinthians 9:21

  to those without the law as one without the law (not being without the law of God but under the law of the Messiah), so that I might win those without the law.

• 1 Corinthians 9:22

  I became to the weak weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I might save some.

• Philippians 3:8

  More than that, I also consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing value of the knowledge of the Messiah Jesus my Lord, because of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and I consider them garbage, so that I may gain the Messiah

• James 4:13

  Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit,

• 1 Peter 3:1

  Likewise, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, so that even if some disobey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

And 1 more times.