Dictionary entry

G02936

An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon Keyed to Strong's Numbers

κτίζω

1. "to people" a country, "build houses and cities" in it, "colonise", Il., Hdt., etc.

2. of a city, "to found, plant, build", Od., Hdt., etc.:—Pass. "to be founded", Σμύρνην τὴν ἀπὸ Κολοφῶνος κτισθεῖσαν "founded by emigrants from" Colophon, Hdt.

3. κτ. ἄλσος "to plant" a grove, Pind.; κτ. βωμόν "to set up" an altar, id=Pind.; τὸν Κύρνον κτίσαι "to establish" his worship, Hdt.

4. "to create, bring into being, bring about", Aesch.; τὸν χαλινὸν κτίσας "having invented" it, Soph.

5. "to make" so and so, ἐλεύθερον κτ. τινά Aesch., etc.

6. "to perpetrate" a deed, Soph.