1. creation, created order — The act of creating or the totality of what God has made, including individual created beings. This is the dominant NT sense of ktisis, covering both the abstract act and the concrete result. In Mark 10:6 and 13:19 it refers to the beginning of creation (spa creación, hin sṛṣṭi, kor changjoe). Romans 8:19-22 personifies creation groaning in expectation (arb al-ḫalīqa, deu Schöpfung, fra créature). In 2 Cor 5:17 and Gal 6:15 it denotes the 'new creation' in Christ. Col 1:15,23 speaks of Christ as firstborn of all creation. Heb 4:13 uses it for 'creature' that is not hidden from God (spa criatura, kor pijomulli). Heb 9:11 and Rev 3:14 also employ this sense. Hebrew consistently renders בְּרִיאָה. The genitive construction 'of creation' (Mark 10:6, 13:19, 2 Pet 3:4) is merely syntactic, not a separate sense. 18×
AR["الخَليقَةِ","الخَلِيقَةِ","المَخلوقَ","الْخَلِيقَةُ","الْخَلِيقَةِ","جَديدَةٌ","خَلقٌ","خَلقِ","خَليقَةٌ","خَليقَةٍ","خَلِيقَةٍ","خَلِيقَةِ","خَلْقِ"]·ben["সৃষ্টি","সৃষ্টি-র","সৃষ্টি।","সৃষ্টিকে","সৃষ্টিতে","সৃষ্টির"]·DE["Schoepfung"]·EN["creation","creature","of-creation"]·FR["création","créature"]·heb["בְּרִיאַת","בְּרִיאָה","בְּרִיאָה.","בְרִיאָה","הַ-בְּרִיאָה","הַבְּרִיאָה"]·HI["सृष्टि","सृष्टि--","सृष्टि-के","सृष्टि-को","स्रिशति","स्रिशति."]·ID["ciptaan","ciptaan,","makhluk","penciptaan","penciptaan."]·IT["creazione","ktisei","ktiseos","ktiseōs","ktisis"]·jav["ciptaan","nalika-dumadi","titah","titah.","tumitah."]·KO["창조","창조-의","창조-의.","창조.","창조의","피조물","피조물-안에","피조물도","피조물보다","피조물에게","피조물의","피조물이","피조물이다"]·PT["criatura","criação","criação,","da-criação"]·RU["-сынов","не-","освободится","стенает-вместе","твари","тварь","творение","творении","творению","творения"]·ES["creación","criatura","de-creación"]·SW["kiumbe","kiumbe.","uumbaji","viumbe","wa-uumbaji"]·TR["yaratilisinin","yaratilista","yaratık","yaratılana","yaratılış","yaratılışa","yaratılıştan","yaratılışın"]·urd["تخلیق-کی","تخلیق-کے","تخلیق۔","خلقت","مخلوق","مخلوق-کا","مخلوق-کی","پیدائش"]
Mark 10:6, Mark 13:19, Mark 16:15, Rom 1:20, Rom 1:25, Rom 8:19, Rom 8:20, Rom 8:21, Rom 8:22, Rom 8:39, 2 Cor 5:17, Gal 6:15 (+6 more)
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2. institution, ordinance — A human institution or established social/governmental structure, extending ktisis from divine creation to human ordering. In 1 Pet 2:13 believers are urged to submit to every human institution (πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει) for the Lord's sake. The multilingual glosses diverge from the creation sense: arb tartīb (arrangement/order), hin vyavasthā (system/arrangement), kor jedo (institution/system), spa institución. Only German Schöpfung and French création retain the creation gloss, showing translational ambiguity. This institutional sense is well attested in Hellenistic Greek where ktisis extends from 'founding' to 'established order,' distinct from the theological creation sense. 1×
AR["تَرتيبٍ"]·ben["প্রতিষ্ঠানের"]·DE["Schoepfung"]·EN["institution"]·FR["création"]·heb["בְּרִיאָה"]·HI["व्यवस्था-के"]·ID["lembaga"]·IT["ktisei"]·jav["pranatan"]·KO["제도에"]·PT["instituição"]·RU["установлению"]·ES["institución"]·SW["taasisi"]·TR["oluşuma"]·urd["بندش-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
κτίσ-ις [ῐ], εως, ἡ, (κτίζω) founding, settling, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 loosely, ={πρᾶξις}, κούφα κ. an easy achievement, Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 creation, κ. κόσμου NT __II created thing, creature, LXX+NT __III authority created or ordained, NT