UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: κερδαίνω normally has the meaning of to gain or to make a profit (see κερδαίνω[a], 57.189: κερδαίνω / 57.189: ποιέω); however, the avoidance of a loss may also be regarded as a gain.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: κερδαίνω; fut.; κερδήσω; κερδαίνω; aor.; ἐκέρδησα; κερδαίνω; subj.; κερδήσω; κερδάνω; κερδαίνω; inf.; κερδῆσαι

Related lemmas: αἰσχροκερδής · αἰσχροκερδῶς · κέρδος

Sense 1: to earn, to gain, to make a profit

Semantic entry: 57.189

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Earn, Gain, Do Business

Definition: to gain by means of one’s activity or investment

MAT 16:26: RV MAT 16:26 · LV MAT 16:26 · Read together MAT 16:26

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OET-RV MAT 16:26

26 What help would it be to a person if they gain everything in the world, and yet lose their soul? Or put another way, what could a person give in exchange for their soul?

OET-LV MAT 16:26

26 For/Because what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _being _benefitted, if he _may _gain the whole world, but the soul of _him may _be _lost?
Or what ˓will˒_ a_person _be _giving as_an_exchange for _the soul of _him?

MAT 18:15: RV MAT 18:15 · LV MAT 18:15 · Read together MAT 18:15

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OET-RV MAT 18:15

15 “If a fellow believer sins, go where there’s just the two of you and rebuke that person privately. If they listen to you, you’ve gained back a fellow believer.

OET-LV MAT 18:15

15 And if the brother of _you may _sin, be _going, rebuke him between you and him only.
If he _may _hear from _you, you _gained the brother of _you.

All 15 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 16:26 · RV MAT 18:15 · RV MAT 25:16–17 · RV MAT 25:20 · RV MAT 25:22 · LV MAT 16:26 · LV MAT 18:15 · LV MAT 25:16–17 · LV MAT 25:20 · LV MAT 25:22 · Read together MAT 16:26 · Read together MAT 18:15 · Read together MAT 25:16–17 · Read together MAT 25:20 · Read together MAT 25:22

MRK: RV MRK 8:36 · LV MRK 8:36 · Read together MRK 8:36

LUK: RV LUK 9:25 · LV LUK 9:25 · Read together LUK 9:25

CO1: RV CO1 9:19–22 · LV CO1 9:19–22 · Read together CO1 9:19–22

PHP: RV PHP 3:8 · LV PHP 3:8 · Read together PHP 3:8

JAM: RV JAM 4:13 · LV JAM 4:13 · Read together JAM 4:13

PE1: RV PE1 3:1 · LV PE1 3:1 · Read together PE1 3:1

Sense 2: to avoid, to cause not to occur

Semantic entry: 13.137

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Happen

Definition: to cause a loss not to happen{N:001}

ACT 27:21: RV ACT 27:21 · LV ACT 27:21 · Read together ACT 27:21

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OET-RV ACT 27:21

21 and no one had eaten or drunk much at all.
¶ Then Paulos stood up in the middle of them and said, “Well, you should have listened to me after all and not left Kraitai, so now we have this damage and loss.

OET-LV ACT 27:21

21 And of _much abstinence being, then the Paulos having _been _stood in midst of _them said:
It _was _fitting indeed, Oh men, having _yielded to _me, not to _be _being _launched from the Kraʸtaʸ, and to _gain the this damage, and the loss.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κερδαίνω

Form 1

Sense 1: to earn, to gain, to make a profit

Sense 2: to avoid, to cause not to occur