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Lexicon :: Strong's G2770 - kerdainō

Aa
κερδαίνω
Transliteration
kerdainō (Key)
Pronunciation
ker-dah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:672,428

Strong’s Definitions

κερδαίνω kerdaínō, ker-dah'-ee-no; from G2771; to gain (literally or figuratively):—(get) gain, win.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G2770 in the following manner: gain (13x), win (1x), won (1x), get gain (1x), variations of 'gain' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G2770 in the following manner: gain (13x), win (1x), won (1x), get gain (1x), variations of 'gain' (1x).

  1. to gain, acquire, to get gain

  2. metaph.

    1. of gain arising from shunning or escaping from evil (where we say "to spare one's self", "be spared")

    2. to gain any one i.e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, to gain one to faith in Christ

    3. to gain Christ's favour and fellowship

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κερδαίνω kerdaínō, ker-dah'-ee-no; from G2771; to gain (literally or figuratively):—(get) gain, win.
STRONGS G2770:
κερδαίνω: (future κερδήσω, James 4:13 Rec.bez elz L T Tr WH; see also below); 1 aorist ἐκέρδησα (an Ionic form from κερδάω, which later writers use for the earlier ἐκερδανα, see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 740; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. ii., p. 215; Winers Grammar, 87 (83); (Veitch, under the word)), once 1 aorist subjunctive κερδάνω (1 Corinthians 9:21 L T Tr (but WH (cf. also Griesbach note) read the future κερδάνω, cf. Buttmann, 60 (53); § 139, 38)); 1 future passive κερδηθήσομαι (the subjunctive κερδηθήσωνται, 1 Peter 3:1 R G is a clerical error (cf. references under the word καίω, at the beginning), for which L T Tr WH have restored κερδηθήσονται (cf. Buttmann, § 139, 38)); (from Hesiod down); (from κέρδος); to gain, acquire; (Vulg. passim lucrifacio (also lucro, etc.));
a. properly: τόν κόσμον, Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25; money, Matthew 25:16 (L T WH),17,20,22; absolutely, to get gain, James 4:13.
b. metaphorically,
α. with nouns signifying loss, damage, injury, it is used of the gain arising from shunning or escaping from the evil (where we say to spare oneself, be spared): τήν ὕβριν ταύτην καί ζημίαν, Acts 27:21; τό γέ μιανθῆναι τάς χεῖρας κερδαίνειν, to avoid the crime of fratricide, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 3, 2; ζημίαν, to escape a loss, Euripides, Cycl. 312; other examples in Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 139f
β. τινα, to gain anyone i. e. to win him over to the kingdom of God, which none but the placable enter, Matthew 18:15; to gain one to faith in Christ, 1 Peter 3:1; 1 Corinthians 9:19-22; Χριστόν, to gain Christ's favor and fellowship, Philippians 3:8. Not found in the O. T.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
16:26; 18:15; 25:16
Mark
8:36
Luke
9:25
Acts
27:21
1 Corinthians
9:19; 9:20; 9:21; 9:21; 9:22
Philippians
3:8
James
4:13; 4:13
1 Peter
3:1; 3:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2770 matches the Greek κερδαίνω (kerdainō),
which occurs 17 times in 16 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:26 - For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:15 - And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:16 - Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:17 - In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:20 - And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:22 - And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:36 - What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:25 - For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:21 - And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:20 - And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:21 - To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:22 - To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:8 - Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:13 - How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:1 - Wives, be ruled by your husbands; so that even if some of them give no attention to the word, their hearts may be changed by the behaviour of their wives,
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