Greek noun (neuter) · G2771
κέρδος
kerdosker'-dos
gain
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kérdos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2771is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2771
gain (pecuniary or genitive case)
The King James renders it: gain, lucre.
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
kerdos is rendered "gain". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Philippians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Philippians 1:21For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21κέρδος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Philippians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gain3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| κερδαίνω | kerdaino | to gain | Uses17 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- κέρδη1
- κέρδος1
- κέρδους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Philippians
two uses
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
- κέρδοςkerdosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: gain
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
- κέρδηkerdenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: gain
Titus
one use
who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
- κέρδουςkerdousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: gain
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.