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Lexicon :: Strong's G2540 - kairos

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καιρός
Transliteration
kairos (Key)
Pronunciation
kahee-ros'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:455,389

Trench's Synonyms: lvii. χρόνος, καιρός.

Strong’s Definitions

καιρός kairós, kahee-ros'; of uncertain affinity; an occasion, i.e. set or proper time:—X always, opportunity, (convenient, due) season, (due, short, while) time, a while. Compare G5550.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x

The KJV translates Strong's G2540 in the following manner: time (64x), season (13x), opportunity (2x), due time (2x), always (with G1722) (with G3956) (2x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 87x
The KJV translates Strong's G2540 in the following manner: time (64x), season (13x), opportunity (2x), due time (2x), always (with G1722) (with G3956) (2x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (3x).
  1. due measure

  2. a measure of time, a larger or smaller portion of time, hence:

    1. a fixed and definite time, the time when things are brought to crisis, the decisive epoch waited for

    2. opportune or seasonable time

    3. the right time

    4. a limited period of time

    5. to what time brings, the state of the times, the things and events of time

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καιρός kairós, kahee-ros'; of uncertain affinity; an occasion, i.e. set or proper time:—X always, opportunity, (convenient, due) season, (due, short, while) time, a while. Compare G5550.
STRONGS G2540:
καιρός, καιροῦ, (derived by some from κάρα or κάρη, τό, the head, summit (others besides; cf. Vanicek, p. 118)); the Sept. for עֵת and מועֵד; in Greek writings (from Hesiod down):
1. due measure; nowhere so in the Biblical writings.
2. a measure of time; a larger or smaller portion of time; hence,
a. universally, a fixed and definite time: Romans 13:11; 2 Corinthians 6:2; ὕστεροι καιροί, 1 Timothy 4:1; ἄχρι καιροῦ, up to a certain time, for a season, Luke 4:13 (but in ἄχρι, 1 b. referred apparently to b. below; cf. Fritzsche, Romans, i., p. 309f); Acts 13:11; πρός καιρόν, for a certain time only, for a season, Luke 8:13; 1 Corinthians 7:5; πρός καιρόν ὥρας, for the season of an hour, i. e. for a short season, 1 Thessalonians 2:17; κατά καιρόν, at certain seasons (from time to time), John 5:4 (R G L); at the (divinely) appointed time, Romans 5:6 (others bring this under b.); before the time appointed, Matthew 8:29; 1 Corinthians 4:5; ἔσται καιρός, ὅτε etc. 2 Timothy 4:3; ὀλίγον καιρόν ἔχει, a short time (in which to exercise his power) has been granted him, Revelation 12:12; ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ καιρῷ, Matthew 11:25; Matthew 12:1; Matthew 14:1; Ephesians 2:12; κατ' ἐκεῖνον τῷ καιρῷ, Acts 12:1; Acts 19:23; κατά τῷ καιρῷ τοῦτον, Romans 9:9; ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ καιρῷ Luke 13:1; ἐν καιρῷ, Acts 7:20; ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ, Romans 3:26; Romans 11:5; 2 Corinthians 8:14 (13); ἐν παντί καιρῷ always, at every season (Aristotle, top. 3, 2, 4, p. 117{a}, 35), Luke 21:36; Ephesians 6:18; εἰς τινα καιρόν, 1 Peter 1:11. with the genitive of a thing, the time of etc. i. e. at which it will occur: τῆς ἐμῆς ἀναλύσεώς, 2 Timothy 4:6; τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς, 1 Peter 5:6 Lachmann; Luke 19:44; περιασμου, Luke 8:13; τοῦ ἄρξασθαι τό κρίμα, for judgment to begin, 1 Peter 4:17; καιροί τῶν λόγων, of the time when they shall be proved by the event, Luke 1:20; — or when a thing usually comes to pass: τοῦ θερισμοῦ, Matthew 13:30; τῶν καρπῶν, when the fruits ripen, Matthew 21:34, 41; σύκων, Mark 11:13. with the genitive of a person: καιποι ἐθνῶν, the time granted to the Gentiles, until God shall take vengeance on them, Luke 21:24; ἑαυτοῦ (T Tr WH αὐτοῦ) καιρῷ, the time when antichrist shall show himself openly, 2 Thessalonians 2:6; καιρός μου, the time appointed for my death, Matthew 26:18; τῶν νεκρῶν κριθῆναι, the time appointed for the dead to be recalled to life and judged, Revelation 11:18 (Buttmann, 260 (224)); ἐμός, ὑμέτερος, the time for appearing in public, appointed (by God) for me, for you, John 7:6, 8; καιρῷ ἰδίῳ, the time suited to the thing under consideration, at its proper time, Galatians 6:9; plural, 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Timothy 6:15; Titus 1:3. καιρός alone, the time when things are brought to a crisis, the decisive epoch waited for: so of the time when the Messiah will visibly return from heaven, Mark 13:33; καιρός ἤγγικεν, Luke 21:8; ἐγγύς ἐστιν, Revelation 1:3; Revelation 22:10.
b. opportune or seasonable time: with verbs suggestive of the idea of advantage, καιρόν μεταλαμβάνειν, Acts 24:25; ἔχειν, Galatians 6:10 (Plutarch, Luc. 16); ἐξαγοράζεσθαι, Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 4:5, see ἐξαγοράζω, 2; followed by an infinitive, opportunity to do something, Hebrews 11:15; παρά καιρόν ἡλικίας, past the opportunity of life (A. V. past age), Hebrews 11:11 (simply παρά καιρόν, Pindar Ol. 8, 32; several times in Plato, cf. Ast, Platonic Lexicon, ii., p. 126).
c. the right time: ἐν καιρῷ (often in classical Greek), in due season, Matthew 24:45; Luke 12:42; Luke 20:10 R G L ((stereotype edition only)); 1 Peter 5:6; also καιρῷ, Luke 20:10 L T Tr WH; τό καιρῷ, Mark 12:2.
d. a (limited) period of time: (1 Corinthians 7:29); plural the periods prescribed by God to the nations, and bounded by their rise and fall, Acts 17:26; καιροί καρποφοροι, the seasons of the year in which the fruits grow and ripen, Acts 14:17 (cf. Genesis 1:14, the Sept.); καιρόν καί καιρούς καί ἥμισυ καιροῦ, a year and two years and six months (A. V. a time, and times, and half a time; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 4), Revelation 12:14 (cf. 6; from Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:7); stated seasons of the year solemnly kept by the Jews, and comprising several days, as the passover, pentecost, feast of tabernacles, Galatians 4:10 (2 Chronicles 8:13; cf. Baruch 1:14). in the divine arrangement of time adjusted to the economy of salvation: καιρός (πεπλήρωται), the preappointed period which according to the purpose of God must elapse before the divine kingdom could be founded by Christ, Mark 1:15; plural, the several parts of this period, Ephesians 1:10; καιρός ἐνεστως, the present period, equivalent to αἰών οὗτος (see αἰών, 3), Hebrews 9:9, opposed to καιρός διορθώσεως, the time when the whole order of things will be reformed (equivalent to αἰών μέλλων), Hebrews 9:10; καιρός οὗτος, equivalent to αἰών οὗτος (see αἰών, 3), Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; νῦν καιρός, Romans 8:18; ἐν καιρῷ ἐσχάτῳ, the last period of the present age, the time just before the return of Christ from heaven (see ἔσχατος, 1 under the end, etc.), 1 Peter 1:5; καιροί ἀναψύξεως ἀπό προσώπου τοῦ κυρίου, denotes the time from the return of Christ on, the times of the consummated divine kingdom, Acts 3:20 (19).
e. as often in Greek writings, and like the Latintempus, καιρός; is equivalent to what time brings, the state of the times, the things and events of time: Luke 12:56; δουλεύειν τῷ καιρῷ, Latintempori servire (see δουλεύω, 2 a.), Romans 12:11 Rec.st; τά σημεῖα τῶν καιρῶν, equivalent to οἱ καιροί σημαινουσι, Matthew 16:3 (here T brackets WH reject the passage); καιροί χαλεποί, 2 Timothy 3:1; χρονοι καιροί (times or seasons, German Zeitumstände), Acts 1:7; οἱ χρονοι καί οἱ καιροί 1 Thessalonians 5:1; and in the opposite order, Daniel 2:21 the Sept.; Wis. 8:8.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
1:14
2 Chronicles
8:13
Daniel
2:21; 7:25; 12:7
Matthew
8:29; 11:25; 12:1; 13:30; 14:1; 16:3; 21:34; 21:41; 24:45; 26:18
Mark
1:15; 10:30; 11:13; 12:2; 13:33
Luke
1:20; 4:13; 8:13; 8:13; 12:42; 12:56; 13:1; 16; 18:30; 19:44; 20:10; 20:10; 21:8; 21:24; 21:36
John
5:4; 7:6; 7:8
Acts
1:7; 3:20; 7:20; 12:1; 13:11; 14:17; 17:26; 19:23; 24:25
Romans
3:26; 5:6; 8:18; 9:9; 11:5; 12:11; 13:11
1 Corinthians
4:5; 7:5; 7:29
2 Corinthians
6:2; 8:14
Galatians
4:10; 6:9; 6:10
Ephesians
1:10; 2:12; 5:16; 6:18
Colossians
4:5
1 Thessalonians
2:17; 5:1
2 Thessalonians
2:6
1 Timothy
2:6; 4:1; 6:15
2 Timothy
3:1; 4:3; 4:6
Titus
1:3
Hebrews
9:9; 9:10; 11:11; 11:15
1 Peter
1:5; 1:11; 4:17; 5:6; 5:6
Revelation
1:3; 11:18; 12:12; 12:14; 22:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2540 matches the Greek καιρός (kairos),
which occurs 302 times in 258 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 1:14–Deu 16:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 -

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for seasons[fn] and for days and years.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 -

Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:21 -

“But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 -

So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham’s household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 -

On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 -

The LORD said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son! ” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:14 -

“Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 -

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 -

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 -

She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne three sons for him.” Therefore he was named Levi.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 -

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 -

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 -

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:32 -

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not let the people go.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:4 -

“But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:14 -

“For this time I am about to send all my plagues against you,[fn] your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like me on the whole earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 -

“Keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:14 -

“Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 -

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:17 -

“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:18 -

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] as I commanded you, for you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:23 -

“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 -

“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 -

“When a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days, though it is not the time of her menstruation, or if she has a discharge beyond her period, she will be unclean all the days of her unclean discharge, as she is during the days of her menstruation.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:4 -

“These are the LORD’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 -

“I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:3 -

“You must observe it at its appointed time on the fourteenth day of this month at twilight; you are to observe it according to all its statutes and ordinances.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 -

and said to him, “We are unclean because of a human corpse. Why should we be excluded from presenting the LORD’s offering at its appointed time with the other Israelites? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 -

“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 -

“Only don’t rebel against the LORD, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us. Don’t be afraid of them! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 -

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 -

There is no magic curse against Jacob

and no divination against Israel.

It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,

“What great things God has done! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:9 -

“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 -

“I commanded your judges at that time: Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge rightly between a man and his brother or his resident alien.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:18 -

“At that time I commanded you about all the things you were to do.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 -

“At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 -

“We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 -

“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 -

“At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 -

“I commanded you at that time: The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your valiant men will cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:21 -

“I commanded Joshua at that time: Your own eyes have seen everything the LORD your God has done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the kingdoms you are about to enter.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:23 -

“At that time I begged the LORD:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 -

“At that time the LORD commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to follow in the land you are about to cross into and possess.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 -

“At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to report the word[fn] of the LORD to you, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain. And he said:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:19 -

“I was afraid of the fierce anger the LORD had directed against you, because he was about to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me on that occasion.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 -

“The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron at that time also.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 -

“The LORD said to me at that time, ‘Cut two stone tablets like the first ones and come to me on the mountain and make a wooden ark.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8 -

“At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the LORD’s covenant, to stand before the LORD to serve him, and to pronounce blessings in his name, as it is today.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 -

“I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the first time. The LORD also listened to me on this occasion; he agreed not to annihilate you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:6 -

“Sacrifice the Passover animal only at the place where the LORD your God chooses to have his name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.


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