TRV
κερδαίνω
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 17 occurrences, inflected in 9 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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κερδήσω·
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Subjunctive
- Possibility or purpose — "might", "should".
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐκέρδησα
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ἐκέρδησεν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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κερδῆσαί
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ἐκέρδησας
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
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κερδήσας
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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κερδήσῃ
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Subjunctive
- Possibility or purpose — "might", "should".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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κερδήσομεν·
- Future
- Action yet to take place.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
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κερδηθήσονται
- Future
- Action yet to take place.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 15 verses across 8 of the 27 books. Most frequent in Matthew (5 verses); never once in the other 19.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.