Gloss
new, latest, anew; in some contexts new is superior to old (Mt 9:17; Heb 8)
Forms of the word
Dictionary
καινός, -ή, -όν
Greek transliteration
kainos
Simplified transliteration
kainos
Numbers
Strong's number
2537
GK Number
2785
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
41
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-1a(2a)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for καινός
| 2 Peter 3:13 | But according to his promise we are waiting for new (kainous | καινούς | acc pl masc) heavens and a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) earth in which righteousness will be at home. |
| 1 John 2:7 | Dear friends, it is not a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) commandment that I write to you, but an old commandment — one that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have already heard. |
| 1 John 2:8 | Yet it is a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) commandment that I write to you, one that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. |
| 2 John 1:5 | And now I ask you, dear lady — not as though I were writing a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning — that we love one another. |
| Revelation 2:17 | He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna. And I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new (kainon | καινόν | acc sg neut) name which no one can understand except the one who receives it. |
| Revelation 3:12 | The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and he will never go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God (the new (kainēs | καινῆς | gen sg fem) Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven from my God), and my own new (kainon | καινόν | acc sg neut) name. |
| Revelation 5:9 | And they sang a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation. |
| Revelation 14:3 | and they were singing a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one was able to learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. |
| Revelation 21:1 | Then I saw a new (kainon | καινόν | acc sg masc) heaven and a new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. |
| Revelation 21:2 | And I saw the holy city, the new (kainēn | καινήν | acc sg fem) Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. |
| Revelation 21:5 | And the one seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” (kaina | καινά | acc pl neut) And he said, “Write it down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” |
