UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to get, to acquire, to gain

Semantic entry: 57.58

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Take, Obtain, Gain, Lose

Definition: to acquire possession of something{N:001}

Sense 2: to save oneself, to protect oneself

Semantic entry: 21.20

Semantic domains: Danger, Risk, Safe, Save

Subdomains: Cause To Be Safe, Free from Danger

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to acquire one’s soul, or: to acquire one’s life) to save oneself from grave danger or death

Collocations: κτάομαι τὴν ψυχήν

Sense 3: sexual life

Semantic entry: 23.63

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sexual Relations

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to possess a vessel) a euphemistic manner of referring to sexual relations

Notes: It is also possible to understand σκεῦος in RV TH1 4:4 · LV TH1 4:4 · Read together TH1 4:4 as one’s wife (see 10.55: σκεῦος). σκεῦος in RV TH1 4:4 · LV TH1 4:4 · Read together TH1 4:4 may also be understood as one’s body, and therefore the phrase τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σκεῦος κτᾶσθαι may be rendered as ‘to control his own body’ (see 8.6: σκεῦος).

Collocations: σκεῦος κτάομαι