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creature

Meaning of “creature”

Sense 1: A being or thing made or created. Sense 2: Created beings or the created order collectively. Sense 3: In the phrase 'new creature,' a person or state made new in Christ.

Definition sources

Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-referencesSkeat 1893Webster 1828
29 occurrences28 verses11 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 1:20

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Genesis 1:21

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

That which is created; every being besides the Creator, or every thing not self-existent. […] That which is produced, formed or imagined; as a creature of the imagination.

volume 1, leaf 508, column 3 (entry starts at OCR line 66)