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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.

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

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 1:20

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Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Romans 1:25 · retained source text

Who changed the trueth of God into a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature more then the Creatour, who is blessed for euer. Amen.

Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Romans 8:20 · retained source text

For the creature was made subiect to vanitie, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subiected the same in hope:

Romans 8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Romans 8:21 · retained source text

Because the creature it selfe also shall bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious libertie of the children of God.

Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1611 witness · Romans 8:39 · retained source text

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.

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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.

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