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Lexicon :: Strong's G2537 - kainos

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καινός
Transliteration
kainos (Key)
Pronunciation
kahee-nos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:447,388

Trench's Synonyms: lx. νέος, καινός.

Strong’s Definitions

†καινός kainós, kahee-nos'; of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while G3501 is properly so with respect to age:—new.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's G2537 in the following manner: new (44x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's G2537 in the following manner: new (44x).

  1. new

    1. as respects form

      1. recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn

    2. as respects substance

      1. of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†καινός kainós, kahee-nos'; of uncertain affinity; new (especially in freshness; while G3501 is properly so with respect to age:—new.
STRONGS G2537:
καινός, καινή, καινόν (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down); the Sept. for חָדָשׁ; new, i. e.
a. as respects form; recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn (opposed to παλαιός old, antiquated): as ἀσκός, Matthew 9:11; Mark 2:22 (T omits; Tr WH brackets the clause); Luke 5:38 ἱμάτιον, Luke 5:36; πλήρωμα, Mark 2:21; μνημεῖον, Matthew 27:60; with ἐν ᾧ οὐδέπω οὐδείς ἐτέθη added, John 19:41; καινά καί παλαιά, Matthew 13:52; new, which as recently made is superior to what it succeeds: διαθήκη, Matthew 26:28 (T WH omit καινά); Mark 14:24 R L; Luke 22:20 (WH reject the passage); 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 8:8, 13; Hebrews 9:15 (Jeremiah 38:31 (Jer. 31:31)); καινοί οὐρανοί, καινή γῆ, 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1 (Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22); Ἱερουσαλήμ (see Ἱεροσόλυμα, at the end), Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:2; ἄνθρωπος (see the word, 1 f.), Ephesians 2:15; Ephesians 4:24 (καρδία, πνεῦμα, Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 36:26); καινά πάντα ποιῶ, I bring all things into a new and better condition, Revelation 21:5; γέννημα τῆς ἀμπέλου, Matthew 26:29; Mark 14:25.
b. as respects substance; of a new kind; unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of (ἑτέρα καί καινά δαιμόνια, Xenophon, mem. 1, 1, 1): διδαχή, Mark 1:27; Acts 17:19; ἐντολή, given now for the first time, John 13:34; 1 John 2:7; 2 John 1:5; ὄνομα, with the added explanation ὁ οὐδείς οἶδεν (ἔγνω Rec.), Revelation 2:17 (Isaiah 62:2; Isaiah 65:15); ᾠδή, Revelation 5:9; Revelation 14:3 (Psalm 143:9 (Ps. 144:9); ὕμνος, Isaiah 42:10; ᾆσμα, Psalm 32:3 (Ps. 33:3); Psalms 39:4 (Ps. 40:4), etc.); λέγειν τί καί (ἤ L T Tr WH) ἀκούειν καινότερον, Acts 17:21 (newer namely, than that which is already; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 244 (228f))); κτίσις, Galatians 6:15; καινά τά πάντα, all things are new, previously non-existent, begin to be far different from what they were before, 2 Corinthians 5:17 (L T Tr WH omit τά πάντα); μηκέτι οὔσης τῆς ἀνομίας, καινων δέ γεγονότων πάντων ὑπό κυρίου, the Epistle of Barnabas 15, 7 [ET]. γλῶσσαι (see γλῶσσα, 2): Mark 16:17 (Tr text WH text omit; Tr marginal reading brackets καινων)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
32:3; 33:3; 39:4; 40:4; 143:9; 144:9
Isaiah
42:10; 62:2; 65:15; 65:17; 66:22
Jeremiah
31:31
Ezekiel
18:31; 36:26
Matthew
9:11; 13:52; 26:28; 26:29; 27:60
Mark
1:27; 2:21; 2:22; 14:24; 14:25; 16:17
Luke
5:36; 5:38; 22:20
John
13:34; 19:41
Acts
17:19; 17:21
1 Corinthians
11:25
2 Corinthians
3:6; 5:17
Galatians
6:15
Ephesians
2:15; 4:24
Hebrews
8:8; 8:13; 9:15
2 Peter
3:13
1 John
2:7
2 John
1:5
Revelation
2:17; 3:12; 5:9; 14:3; 21:1; 21:2; 21:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2537 matches the Greek καινός (kainos),
which occurs 42 times in 36 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:17 - “Nor is new wine put into old [fn]wineskins [that have lost their elasticity]; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the [fermenting] wine spills and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, so both are preserved.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 13:52

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:52 - He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household, who brings out of his [fn]treasure things that are new and fresh and things that are old and familiar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:29

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:29 - “But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:60

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:60 - and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and he rolled a large stone over the entrance of the tomb and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:27 - They were all so amazed that they debated and questioned each other, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits (demons), and they obey Him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:21 -

“No one sews a patch of unshrunk (new) cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:22 - “No one puts new wine into old [fn]wineskins; otherwise the [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the wineskins. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:25 - “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:17 - “These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:36 - He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:38 - “But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:20 - And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant [ratified] in My blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:34 - “I am giving you a new commandment, that you [fn]love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:41 - Now there was a garden at the place where He was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb [cut out of solid rock] in which no one had yet been laid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:19 - They took him and brought him to the [fn]Areopagus (Hill of Ares, the Greek god of war), saying, “May we know what this [strange] new teaching is which you are proclaiming?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:21 - (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners visiting there used to spend their [leisure] time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:25 - In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant [ratified and established] in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in [affectionate] remembrance of Me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:6 - He has qualified us [making us sufficient] as ministers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not of the letter [of a written code] but of the Spirit; for the letter [of the Law] kills [by revealing sin and demanding obedience], but the Spirit gives life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:17 - Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 6:15 - For neither is circumcision anything [of any importance], nor uncircumcision, but [only] a new creation [which is the result of a new birth—a spiritual transformation—a new nature in Christ Jesus].

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:15 - by abolishing in His [own crucified] flesh the hostility caused by the Law with its commandments contained in ordinances [which He satisfied]; so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thereby establishing peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:24 - and put on the new self [the regenerated and renewed nature], created in God’s image, [godlike] in the righteousness and holiness of the truth [living in a way that expresses to God your gratitude for your salvation].

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:8 - However, God finds fault with them [showing its inadequacy] when He says,

“BEHOLD, THE DAYS WILL COME, SAYS THE LORD,

WHEN I WILL MAKE and RATIFY A NEW COVENANT

WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 8:13 -

When God speaks of “A new covenant,” He makes the first one obsolete. And whatever is becoming obsolete (out of use, annulled) and growing old is ready to disappear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:15 -

For this reason He is the Mediator and Negotiator of a new covenant [that is, an entirely new agreement uniting God and man], so that those who have been called [by God] may receive [the fulfillment of] the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has taken place [as the payment] which redeems them from the sins committed under the obsolete first covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:13 - But in accordance with His promise we expectantly await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:7 -

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the message which you have heard [before from us].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:8 - On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true and realized in Christ and in you, because the darkness [of moral blindness] is clearing away and the true Light [the revelation of God in Christ] is already shining.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Jo 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Jo 1:5 - Now I ask you, lady, not as if I were writing to you a new commandment, but [simply reminding you of] the one which we have had from the beginning, that we [fn]love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:17 - ‘He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], to him I will give [the privilege of eating] some of the [fn]hidden manna, and I will give him a [fn]white stone with a new name engraved on the stone which no one knows except the one who receives it.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:12 - ‘He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will make him a [fn]pillar in the temple of My God; he will most certainly never be put 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 Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My [own] new name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:9 - And they sang a new song [of glorious redemption], saying,

“Worthy and deserving are You to take the scroll and to break its seals; for You were slain (sacrificed), and with Your blood You purchased people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:3 - And they sang a new song before the throne [of God] and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased (ransomed, redeemed) from the earth.

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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away (vanished), and there is no longer any [fn]sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:2 - And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:5 -

And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true [they are accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy].”

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