κτίσις

ktivsi" ktivsi",
ktivsew",
hJ (
ktivzw), in Greek writings the act of founding, establishing, building, etc.; in the N. T. (Vulgate everywhere creatura (yet creatio))1. the act of creating, creation:
tou'
kovsmou, .2. equivalent to
ktivsma, creation i. e. thing created (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32); used a. of individual things and beings, a creature, a creation: ; ; any created thing, ; after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called hv;d;j} hy:rIBi (cf. Sch?ttgen, Horae Hebrew , f)),
kainhv
ktivsi" is used of a man regenerated through Christ, ; . b. collectively, the sum or aggregate of created things: (on which see
ajrchv, 3; (
hJ
ktivsi"
tw'n
ajnqrwvpwn, Teaching of the Twelve etc. c. 16));
o{lh/
hJ
ktivsi", Sap. ;
pa'sa
hJ
ktivsi", ; and without the article (cf. Grimm on 3 Macc. (2:2), p. 235; (Lightfoot on Col. as below)),
pa'sa
ktivsi", ; ; ;
swthvr
pavsh"
ktivsew", Acta Thomae, p. 19 edition Thilo (sec. 10, p. 198, Tdf. edition) (see
pa'", I. 1 c.);
ajp!
ajrch'"
ktivsew", ; ; ;
ouj
tauvth"
th'"
ktivsew", not of this order of created things, Heb. ix, 11; accusative to the demands of the context, of some particular kind or class of created things or beings: thus of the human race,
pavsh/
th'/
ktivsei, ;
ejn
pavsh/ (Rec. adds
th'/)
ktivsei
th'/
uJpov
tovn
oujranou', among men of every race, ; the aggregate of irrational creatures, both animate and inanimate (what we call nature), . (Sap. (18); );
pa'sa
hJ
ktivsi", ; where cf. Reiche, Philippi, Meyer, R?kert, others (Arnold in Bapt. Quart. for Apr. 1867, pp. 143-153).3. an institution, ordinance: ; cf. Huther at the passage ((Pindar, others.))*