- Original: κτίσις
- Transliteration: Ktisis
- Phonetic: ktis'-is
- Definition: 
1. the act of founding, establishing, building etc 
a. the act of creating, creation 
b. creation i.e. thing created 
1. of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation 1b 
c. anything created 1b 
d. after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called) 1b 
e. the sum or aggregate of things created 
f. institution, ordinance 
- Origin: from  
G2936  
- TDNT entry: 19:40,5
- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine 
- Strong's: From  
G2936  ; original formation (properly the act; by implication the thing literally or figuratively): - building creation creature ordinance. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 15 
 • building, 1
 
Hebrews 9:11 
 
 • creation, 3
 
Romans 1:20; 
Romans 8:22; 
2 Peter 3:4 
 
 • creature, 10
 
Romans 1:25; 
Romans 8:19; 
Romans 8:20; 
Romans 8:21; 
Romans 8:39; 
2 Corinthians 5:17; 
Galatians 6:15; 
Colossians 1:15; 
Colossians 1:23; 
Hebrews 4:13 
 
 • ordinance, 1
 
1 Peter 2:13