ktizō · create

What it means

ktizō (κτίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “create”.

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 bring something into being, as God made everything.

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

How it is translated

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

• created ×13
• Creator ×1
• he might create ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×4
• Colossians×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 19:4

  But he answered and said, “Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

• Mark 13:19

  For those days will be a time of affliction such as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.

• Romans 1:25

  for they exchanged the truth of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

• 1 Corinthians 11:9

  for indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man.

• Ephesians 2:10

  For we are his workmanship, created in the Messiah Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we might walk in them.

• Ephesians 2:15

  having abolished the law of commandments in decrees, so that he might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace,

• Ephesians 3:9

  and to bring to light for all what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God, who created all things,

• Ephesians 4:24

  and put on the new man who has been created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

• Colossians 1:16

  because in him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

• Colossians 3:10

  and have put on the new man, which is being renewed for knowledge according to the image of the one who created it,

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  who forbid marriage and require abstaining from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• Revelation 4:11

  “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.”

• Revelation 10:6

  and swore by the one who lives to the ages of the ages, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there will be no more time,

And 2 more times.