Vocabulary Form
καλός, -ή, -όν
Definition

beautiful, good

Erasmian
Modern
Root
καλο
Frequency
101
GK
2819
Cognates

Calligraphy (kalligrafiva) is "beautiful handwriting.

Mnemonics

The colors were beautiful!

Mnemonic Singing

Beautiful words, wonderful words,
wonderful words of life;
Beautiful words, wonderful words,
wonderful words of life.

Song
Notes

Alternate song:
Good Christian men rejoice,
with heart and soul and voice.

Biblical Concordance

Mark 9:43 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) for you to enter into life crippled than having two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) for you to enter into life lame than having two feet to be cast into hell.
Mark 9:47 And if your eye causes you to sin, throw it away; it is better (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) for you to enter the kingdom of God having one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell,
Mark 9:50 Salt is good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut), but if the salt has become unsalty, with what will you make it savory? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Mark 14:6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you causing her trouble? She has done a beautiful (kalon | καλόν | acc sg neut) thing to me.
Mark 14:21 For the Son of Man is going as it is written of him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed — better (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) for him if that man had not been born.”
Luke 3:9 Indeed, already the axe is laid to the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good (kalon | καλόν | acc sg masc) fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Luke 6:38 give, and it will be given to you — good (kalon | καλόν | acc sg neut) measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For by what measure you measure, it will be measured in return to you.”
Luke 6:43 “For it is not a good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) tree that bears bad fruit, nor again, a bad tree that bears good (kalon | καλόν | acc sg masc) fruit,
Luke 8:15 But as for that in the good (kalē | καλῇ | dat sg fem) soil — these are the ones who, having heard with an honest (kalē | καλῇ | dat sg fem) and good heart, hold firmly onto the word and bear fruit through patient endurance.
Luke 9:33 As the men were about to leave him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah” — not knowing what he was saying.
Luke 14:34 “Salt, then, is good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut); but if salt has become insipid, with what shall it be seasoned?
Luke 21:5 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful (kalois | καλοῖς | dat pl masc) stones and gifts dedicated to God, Jesus said,
John 2:10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the choice (kalon | καλόν | acc sg masc) wine first, and then when the guests are a bit tipsy, that which is inferior. But you have kept the good (kalon | καλόν | acc sg masc) wine until now.”
John 10:11 “I am the good (kalos | καλός | nom sg masc) shepherd; the good (kalos | καλός | nom sg masc) shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:14 I am the good (kalos | καλός | nom sg masc) shepherd. I know my own and they know me,
John 10:32 Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many noble (kala | καλά | acc pl neut) works from the Father; for which one of them do you intend to stone me?”
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a noble (kalou | καλοῦ | gen sg neut) work that we intend to stone you but for blasphemy; it is because you, a mere man, are making yourself God.”
Acts 27:8 Sailing past it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair (kalous | καλούς | acc pl masc) Havens, near to which was the city Lasea.
Romans 7:16 But if I am doing what I do not want to do, I agree with the law, that it is good (kalos | καλός | nom sg masc).
Romans 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is right (kalon | καλόν | acc sg neut), but I am unable to do it.
Romans 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good (kalon | καλόν | acc sg neut), evil is present in me.
Romans 12:17 Repay no one evil for evil; give careful thought to what is good (kala | καλά | acc pl neut) in the sight of all
Romans 14:21 It is good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut) not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything that makes your brother stumble.
1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good (kalon | καλόν | nom sg neut). Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?