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G2937 is a noun for creation, something created, or an established order. The governed witness uses it for the beginning of creation, the created order, a creature, new creation, and, in 1 Peter 2:13, a human institution.
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G2937 is a noun for creation, something created, or an established order. The governed witness uses it for the beginning of creation, the created order, a creature, new creation, and, in 1 Peter 2:13, a human institution.
The BSB source-word alignment has 19 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include creation (9), creature (3), in all creation (2), of creation (2), [the] creation (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 10:6. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (7), Mark (3), Colossians (2), Hebrews (2).
This entry includes 1 verse guide that explain exact original-language forms in context.
G2937 is a noun for creation, something created, or an established order. The governed witness uses it for the beginning of creation, the created order, a creature, new creation, and, in 1 Peter 2:13, a human institution. Romans 8:19-22 personifies creation as waiting, subjected to futility, hoping for freedom from decay, and groaning together. Second Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 6:15 use the phrase new creation within their respective arguments about life in Christ and what counts before God.
Romans 1 contrasts the Creator with the creature and says God's unseen qualities are perceived from what He has made. These uses belong to one lexical family, but the noun alone does not determine whether a passage refers to the creative act, the world, an individual creature, an institution, or the scope of new creation.
The governed witness contains 19 G2937 forms in 19 verses. Romans supplies six, Mark four, Colossians and Hebrews two each, and five other books one each. Creation, creature, new creation, and human institution all occur in the observed translation range.
Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
The noun refers to an institution or established human order within Peter's instruction about public conduct.
That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Creation's promised freedom belongs to Paul's larger account of suffering, hope, adoption, and glory.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
New creation describes the change associated with being in Christ in the argument that continues into the ministry of reconciliation.
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
The occurrence belongs to Paul's charge that people suppress truth and exchange the Creator for the creature. It should not be detached as a complete account of saving knowledge.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Verses 16-17 immediately explain the Son's relation to all created things and prevent the title from being interpreted in isolation.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Greek word. The totality of all created things, often emphasizing nature's witness to God's power and design.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 19 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
creation, creature, institution
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
κτίσις is built from this root:
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Creation language is not merely background scenery. In the governed passages it serves arguments about accountability, suffering and hope, reconciliation, Christ's supremacy, gospel proclamation, and public conduct. Romans 1 asks readers to distinguish the Creator from the creature. Romans 8 gives creation a posture of waiting and groaning in hope. Second Corinthians 5 places new creation in an argument about being in Christ and receiving the ministry of reconciliation.
Colossians 1 locates all created things under the Son's supremacy. First Peter even uses the noun for a human institution. These claims remain strongest when their distinct referents and contexts are preserved. The word connects them without making them identical or allowing one passage to answer every question raised by the others.
Rom.8.21
G2937 is a noun related to G2936. The governed translations include creation, creature, and institution. Case, number, modifiers, and the surrounding clause identify whether the passage has an act, an order, an entity, or an established arrangement in view.
Genesis grounds biblical speech about God as Creator, while prophetic new-heavens and new-earth texts provide important canonical context for renewal. Those connections should be made through the passages that invoke them, not assumed from G2937 wherever it appears.
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