Creature
creature
(1) That which has been created, i.e., produced out of nothing, viz., all things outside of God.
(2) In philosophy, a contingent being, i.e., ones not necessarily determined by reason of its nature to actual existence, but presupposing a first cause, a necessary being, as its efficient cause, namely God.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Creature
(prop. , ne’phesh, animated or spirit having thing; [less distinctively ; on Rom 8:19, see the Baptist Quarterly, Apr. 1867, art. 2]; but also , she’rets, moving creature, elsewhere creeping thing, i.e. not merely reptile [q.v.], but any gliding or short- legged quadruped), a general term in the Scriptures for any animal (q.v.). SEE DOLEFUL CREATURE.
In the New Test. this word designates,
1. The whole creation, any or all created objects or beings; so Rom 8:39, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, etc.; Col 1:15, the first-born (Master) of every creature; Rev 3:14, the beginning (source) of the creation of God; comp. also Rev 5:13; Heb 4:13.
2. Humanity, or the whole human race, in the universal sense; so Mar 10:6, But from the beginning of the creation () God made them male and female. The word here cannot mean the creation in general, since we find to explain the word , or to bring the meaning back to it. Mar 16:15, Preach the Gospel to every creature; Col 1:23, the Gospel which was preached to every creature which is under heaven. That mankind alone is here alluded to is self- evident, and the expression under heaven shows that all reasonable beings on earth are to be included in the meaning. Particularly remarkable, though different in sense, is the passage Rom 8:19-22, For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now, in which also the expression creature is used to designate the totality of mankind. This is first indicated by the in Rom 8:18, which brings forward in behalf of the which rests on it, that all mankind takes part in this aspiration and in the hope of future glorification. In Rom 8:23, Christians, as part of humanity, are set over against the whole of it. We cannot here place Christians in contrast with the inanimate creation, and overlook entirely the non-Christian part of mankind, to whom a vague longing after the glorious freedom of the children of God could be better attributed than to inanimate nature. Paul nowhere speaks of a change or glorification of the earthly abode of men; this is exclusively reserved for man (1 Corinthians 11:35-50). Krehl, N.T. Handworterbuch; see also Ellicott, The Destiny of the Creature, 2d. ed. 1862; Journal of Sacred Literature, Oct. 1862, p. 27.
The LIVING CREATURES spoken of in Eze 10:15; Eze 10:17; Eze 10:20 (, ehay, alive; the of Rev 5:6, sq., improperly beast), are imaginary or composite beings, symbolical of the divine attributes and operations, such as were common in the mythological representations of all antiquity. SEE CHERUB.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Creature
denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22.
The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Creature
CREATURE.In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] creature is used in the general (and original) sense of what is created. Thus 2Co 5:17 if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; 1Ti 4:4 for every creature of God is good. In Rom 8:19-21 it is not merely living creatures in the modern use of the word that wait for deliverance, but the whole creation of God (as AV [Note: Authorized Version.] itself has it in Rom 8:22).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Creature
kretur: The word creature, as it occurs in the New Testament, is the translation and also the exact English equivalent of the Greek , ktsis, or , ktsma, from , ktzo, to create. In the Old Testament, on the other hand, it stands for words which have in the original no reference to creation, but which come from other roots. Nephesh, living creature (literally, a breathing thing), occurs in the accounts of the Creation and the Flood and at the close of the lists of clean and unclean animals in Lev 11:46. Hay, living creature (literally, a living thing), occurs 13 times in Ezek 1; 3 and 10 (see CREATURE, LIVING). Sherec, moving creature (literally, a swarming thing, generally rendered creeping thing, which see), occurs once in Gen 1:20. ‘Ohm, doleful creatures, occurs once only in Isa 13:21. It appears to be an onomatopoetic word referring to the mournful sounds emitted by the animals in question. From the context it is fair to suppose that owls may be the animals referred to. See OWL; CREATION.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Creature
See Creation; God, Creator; Man, Created
Creation; God, Creator; Man, Created
New creature
– General references
2Co 5:17; Gal 6:15 Regeneration