κερδαίνω [in Sm.: Job.22:3 * ;] to gain: with accusative, Mat.25:16-17, 20 25:22; τ. κόσμον, Mat.16:26, Mrk.8:36, Luk.9:25; absol., to make profit, get gain: Jas.4:13. Metaphorical, with accusative of thing(s), to save oneself from, avoid: Act.27:21 (Field, Notes, 145); with accusative of person(s), to gain, win: Mat.18:15, 1Co.9:19-22, Php.3:8; pass., 1Pe.3:1.† (AS)
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G2770 — κερδαίνω
kerdainō · to gain · Greek
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Matthew 16:26 · κερδήσῃ,for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?Matthew 18:15 · ἐκέρδησας‘And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;Matthew 25:16 · ἐκέρδησεν‘And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;Matthew 25:17 · ἐκέρδησενin like manner also he who received the two, he gained, also he, other two;Matthew 25:20 · ἐκέρδησαand he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, ‘Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.Matthew 25:22 · ἐκέρδησα‘And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.Mark 8:36 · κερδῆσαιfor what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?Luke 9:25 · κερδήσαςfor what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?Acts 27:21 · κερδῆσαίAnd there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, ‘It behoved you, indeed, O men—having hearkened to me—not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;1 Corinthians 9:19 · κερδήσω·for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:20 · κερδήσω· · κερδήσω·and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:21 · κερδάνωto those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law;1 Corinthians 9:22 · κερδήσω·I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.Philippians 3:8 · κερδήσω,yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,James 4:13 · κερδήσομεν·Go, now, ye who are saying, ‘To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;’1 Peter 3:1 · κερδηθήσονται,In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,