Greek adjective · G2756
κενός
kenosken-os'
empty
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kenós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2756is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2756
empty (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: empty, (in) vain.
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
kenos is rendered "empty". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across eleven books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 12:3But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
Mark 12:3κενόν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eleven of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- vain5
- empty-handed3
- void3
- empty2
- in vain2
- foolish1
- vain things1
- with empty1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- κενὸν6
- κενὴ3
- κενόν3
- κενά1
- κενέ1
- κενῆς1
- κενοῖς1
- κενὸς1
- κενούς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular5A-ASN
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular3A-ASM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3A-NSF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural1A-APM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1A-DPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
- adjective · vocative (address) · masculine singular1A-VSM
Mark
one use
But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
- κενόνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: empty-handed
Luke
three uses
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- κενούςkenousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: empty
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.
- κενόνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: empty-handed
So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.
- κενόνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: empty-handed
Acts
one use
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- κενάkenaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: vain things
1 Corinthians
four uses
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
- κενὴkeneadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: void
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
- κενὸνkenonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: void
- κενὴkeneadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: void
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- κενὸςkenosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: in vain
2 Corinthians
one use
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
- κενὸνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vain
Galatians
one use
I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.
- κενὸνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vain
Ephesians
one use
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- κενοῖςkenoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: with empty
Philippians
two uses
as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- κενὸνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vain
- κενὸνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vain
Colossians
one use
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- κενῆςkenesadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: empty
1 Thessalonians
two uses
You yourselves know, brothers, that our visit to you was not in vain.
- κενὴkeneadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: in vain
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.
- κενὸνkenonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: vain
James
one use
O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?
- κενέkeneadjective · vocative (address) · masculine singulartagged: foolish
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.