Gloss
empty, empty-handed; by extension: vain, ineffective, useless, foolish
Forms of the word
Dictionary
κενός, -ή, -όν
Greek transliteration
kenos
Simplified transliteration
kenos
Numbers
Strong's number
2756
GK Number
3031
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
18
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-1a(2a)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for κενός
| Mark 12:3 | But they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed (kenon | κενόν | acc sg masc). |
| Luke 1:53 | He has filled the hungry with good things, but the rich he has sent away empty (kenous | κενούς | acc pl masc). |
| Luke 20:10 | When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants so that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed (kenon | κενόν | acc sg masc). |
| Luke 20:11 | So he sent another servant; but they beat that one as well, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed (kenon | κενόν | acc sg masc). |
| Acts 4:25 | who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, by the Holy Spirit did say, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples devise vain schemes (kena | κενά | acc pl neut)? |
| 1 Corinthians 15:10 | But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain (kenē | κενή | nom sg fem). No, I worked harder than any of them — yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:14 | And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is groundless (kenon | κενόν | nom sg neut), and your faith is to no purpose (kenē | κενή | nom sg fem). |
| 1 Corinthians 15:58 | So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain (kenos | κενός | nom sg masc) in the Lord. |
| 2 Corinthians 6:1 | Thus as coworkers with him, we urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain (kenon | κενόν | acc sg neut). |
| Galatians 2:2 | I went up in response to a revelation and laid out before them — though privately before the acknowledged leaders — the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain (kenon | κενόν | acc sg neut). |
| Ephesians 5:6 | Let no one deceive you with empty (kenois | κενοῖς | dat pl masc) words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. |
| Philippians 2:16 | holding fast the word of life, so that I may have reason to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain (kenon | κενόν | acc sg neut) or labor in vain (kenon | κενόν | acc sg neut). |
| Colossians 2:8 | See to it that no one takes you captive by means of philosophy and empty (kenēs | κενῆς | gen sg fem) deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:1 | For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain (kenē | κενή | nom sg fem). |
| 1 Thessalonians 3:5 | So because I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor had been in vain (kenon | κενόν | acc sg neut). |
| James 2:20 | Would you like to be shown, you shallow (kene | κενέ | voc sg masc) person, that faith without works is useless? |
