κερδαίνω

kerdaivnw kerdaivnw: (future
kerdhvsw, Rec.^bez^elz L T Tr WH; see also below); 1 aorist
ejkevrdhsa (an Ionic form from
kerdavw, which later writers use for the earlier
ejkerdana, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 740; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. ii., p. 215; Winer's Grammar, 87 (83); (Veitch, under the word)), once 1 aorist subjunctive
kerdavnw ( L T Tr (but WH (cf. also Griesbach note) read the future
kerdavnw, cf. Buttmann, 60 (53); sec. 139, 38)); 1 future passive
kerdhqhvsomai (the subjunctive
kerdhqhvswntai, R G is a clerical error (cf. references under the word
kaivw, at the beginning), for which L T Tr WH have restored
kerdhqhvsontai (cf. Buttmann, sec. 139, 38)); (from Hesiod down); (from
kevrdo"); to gain, acquire; (Vulgate passim lucrifacio (also lucro, etc.)); a. properly:
tovn
kovsmon, ; ; ; money, (L T WH),17,20,22; absolutely, to get gain, . b. metaphorically,
a. with nouns signifying loss, damage, injury, it is used of the gain arising from shunning or escaping from the evil (where we say to spare oneself, be spared):
thvn
u{brin
tauvthn
kaiv
zhmivan, ;
tov
gev
mianqh'nai
tav"
cei'ra"
kerdaivnein, to avoid the crime of fratricide, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 2;
zhmivan, to escape a loss, Euripides, Cycl. 312; other examples in Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 139f
b.
tina, to gain anyone i. e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, which none but the placable enter, ; to gain one to faith in Christ, ; ;
Cristovn, to gain Christ's favor and fellowship, . Not found in the O. T.*