Greek verb · G2545
καίω
kaiokah'-yo
to kindle, light; to burn, destroy by fire
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kaíō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2545is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 10spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2545
to set on fire, i.e. kindle or (by implication) consume
The King James renders it: burn, light.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kaio is rendered "to kindle, light; to burn, destroy by fire". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Five of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to kindle, light".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Matthew 5:15καίουσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eleven uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to kindle, light, and to burn, destroy by fire.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to kindle, lightwith accusative, λύχνον, Mat.5:15; pass., to be lighted, to burn | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 5:15Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand… |
| to burn, destroy by firepass., Jhn.15:6, 1Co.13:3.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 15:6If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- καιόμενος2
- καίεται1
- καιόμεναι1
- καιομένη1
- καιομένῃ1
- καιομένης1
- καιόμενοι1
- καιόμενον1
- καίουσιν1
- κεκαυμένῳ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PPP-NSM
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PAI-3P
- verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PPI-3S
- verb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1V-PPP-DSF
- verb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1V-PPP-GSF
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1V-PPP-NPF
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PPP-NPM
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PPP-NSF
- verb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1V-PPP-NSN
- verb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1V-RPP-DSN
Matthew
one use
Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
- καίουσινkaiousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: do they light
Luke
two uses
Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- καιόμενοιkaiomenoiverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: burning
They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
- καιομένηkaiomeneverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: burning
John
two uses
John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
- καιόμενοςkaiomenosverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: is burning
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- καίεταιkaietaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it is burned
Hebrews
one use
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
- κεκαυμένῳkekaumenoverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: kindled
Revelation
five uses
From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
- καιόμεναιkaiomenaiverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: burning
Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,
- καιόμενονkaiomenonverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: burning
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
- καιόμενοςkaiomenosverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: burning
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- καιομένηςkaiomenesverb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: is burning
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- καιομένῃkaiomeneverb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: is burning
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.