Kerdaino means “win” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2770 — chermesh (“sickle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2770 κερδαίνω (kerdaino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kerdaino (ker-dai'-no) v. 1. to gain {literally or figuratively} It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include gain, gained, and win. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament.
kerdaino (ker-dai'-no) v. 1. to gain {literally or figuratively} [from G2771] KJV: (get) gain, win Root(s): G2771
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to gain
Usage: 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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15 indexed usages in New Testament.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2770.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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Kerdaino (Strong's G2770) is a Greek word most simply glossed "win". kerdaino (ker-dai'-no) v. 1. to gain {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G2770 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2770 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gain, gained, and win. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.