Greek verb · G2770
κερδαίνω
kerdainoker-dah'-ee-no
to gain
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kerdaínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2770is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2770
to gain (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: (get) gain, win.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kerdaino is rendered "to gain". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Six of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew 16:26κερδήσῃ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seventeen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I may win4
- I gained2
- I may gain2
- gained1
- having gained1
- he gained1
- he shall gain1
- they will be gained1
- to gain1
- to have incurred1
- will make a profit1
- you have gained1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κέρδος | kerdos | gain | Uses3 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κερδήσω5
- ἐκέρδησα2
- ἐκέρδησεν2
- ἐκέρδησας1
- κερδάνω1
- κερδηθήσονται1
- κερδῆσαι1
- κερδῆσαί1
- κερδήσας1
- κερδήσῃ1
- κερδήσομεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular6V-AAS-1S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular2V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-AAI-2S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AAS-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-FAI-1P
- verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FPI-3P
Matthew
six uses
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- κερδήσῃkerdeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he shall gain
If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.
- ἐκέρδησαςekerdesasverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you have gained
The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
- ἐκέρδησενekerdesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he gained
Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.
- ἐκέρδησενekerdesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: gained
The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
- ἐκέρδησαekerdesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I gained
The servant who had received the two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents. See, I have gained two more.’
- ἐκέρδησαekerdesaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I gained
Mark
one use
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
- κερδῆσαιkerdesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to gain
Luke
one use
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- κερδήσαςkerdesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having gained
Acts
one use
After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.
- κερδῆσαίkerdesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have incurred
1 Corinthians
five uses
Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
- κερδήσωkerdesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may gain
To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.
- κερδήσωkerdesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may win
- κερδήσωkerdesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may win
To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
- κερδάνωkerdanoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may win
To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.
- κερδήσωkerdesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may win
Philippians
one use
More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
- κερδήσωkerdesoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may gain
James
one use
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
- κερδήσομενkerdesomenverb · future active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: will make a profit
1 Peter
one use
Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
- κερδηθήσονταιkerdethesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will be gained
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.