Greek verb · G2932
κτάομαι
ktaomaiktah'-om-ahee
to posses
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ktáomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2932is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2932
to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own)
The King James renders it: obtain, possess, provide, purchase.
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
ktaomai is rendered "to posses". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 10:9Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
Matthew 10:9κτήσησθε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- acquired1
- bought1
- do you gain yourselves1
- I gain1
- may take along1
- to be obtained1
- to control1
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.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- κτᾶσθαι2
- ἐκτησάμην1
- ἐκτήσατο1
- κτήσασθε1
- κτήσησθε1
- κτῶμαι.¶1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PNN
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 1st person singular1V-ADI-1S
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-ADI-3S
- verb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person plural1V-ADM-2P
- verb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-ADS-2P
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PNI-1S
Matthew
one use
Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
- κτήσησθεktesestheverb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: may take along
Luke
two uses
I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
- κτῶμαι.¶ktomaiverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I gain
By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.
- κτήσασθεktesastheverb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do you gain yourselves
Acts
three uses
(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
- ἐκτήσατοektesatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: acquired
But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
- κτᾶσθαιktasthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be obtained
“I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.
- ἐκτησάμηνektesamenverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: bought
1 Thessalonians
one use
each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
- κτᾶσθαιktasthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to control
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.