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Lexicon :: Strong's G2756 - kenos

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κενός
Transliteration
kenos (Key)
Pronunciation
ken-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:659,426

Trench's Synonyms: xlix. κενός, μάταιος.

Strong’s Definitions

κενός kenós, ken-os'; apparently a primary word; empty (literally or figuratively):—empty, (in) vain.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G2756 in the following manner: vain (9x), in vain (4x), empty (4x), vain things (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G2756 in the following manner: vain (9x), in vain (4x), empty (4x), vain things (1x).

  1. empty, vain, devoid of truth

    1. of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing

    2. of men

      1. empty handed

      2. without a gift

    3. metaph. destitute of spiritual wealth, of one who boasts of his faith as a transcendent possession, yet is without the fruits of faith

    4. metaph. of endeavours, labours, acts, which result in nothing, vain, fruitless, without effect

      1. vain of no purpose

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κενός kenós, ken-os'; apparently a primary word; empty (literally or figuratively):—empty, (in) vain.
STRONGS G2756:
κενός, κενή, κενόν (from Homer on down), the Sept. for רֵיקָם, רֵק, רִיק, etc., empty;
1. properly, of places, vessels, etc.,which contain nothing (Judges 7:16; Genesis 37:24); metaphorically, empty, vain; devoid of truth: λόγοι, Ephesians 5:6 (Exodus 5:9); ἀπάτη, Colossians 2:8; κήρυγμα, πίστις, 1 Corinthians 15:14.
2. of men, empty-handed; without a gift: ἀποστέλλειν and ἐξαποστέλλειν τινα κενόν (Genesis 31:42; Deuteronomy 15:13; Deuteronomy 16:16), Mark 12:3; Luke 1:53; Luke 20:10f; metaphorically, destitute of spiritual wealth, of one who boasts of his faith as a transcendent possession, yet is without the fruits of faith, James 2:20.
3. metaphorically, of endeavors, labors, acts, which result in nothing, vain, fruitless, without effect: ἡ χάρις, 1 Corinthians 15:10; κόπος; 1 Corinthians 15:58; ἡ εἴσοδος, 1 Thessalonians 2:1; neuter plural κενά, things that will not succeed, Acts 4:25 (from Psalm 2:1); εἰς κενόν, in vain, to no purpose (cf. Winer's Grammar, 592 (551)): 2 Corinthians 6:1; Galatians 2:2; Philippians 2:16; 1 Thessalonians 3:5 (Isaiah 65:23; Jeremiah 6:29, etc.; Diodorus 19, 9; Heliodorus 10, 30). (Cf. Trench, Synonyms, § xlix.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
31:42; 37:24
Exodus
5:9
Deuteronomy
15:13; 16:16
Judges
7:16
Psalms
2:1
Isaiah
65:23
Jeremiah
6:29
Mark
12:3
Luke
1:53; 20:10
Acts
4:25
1 Corinthians
15:10; 15:14; 15:58
2 Corinthians
6:1
Galatians
2:2
Ephesians
5:6
Philippians
2:16
Colossians
2:8
1 Thessalonians
2:1; 3:5
James
2:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2756 matches the Greek κενός (kenos),
which occurs 61 times in 59 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:42–Isa 65:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:24 - And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had not water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:21 - And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and whenever ye shall escape, ye shall not depart empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:9 - Let the works of these men be made grievous, and let them care for these things, and not care for vain words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:15 - Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, as I charged thee at the season of the month of new corn, for in it thou camest out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear before me empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20 - And the first-born of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep, and if thou wilt not redeem it thou shalt pay a price: every first-born of thy sons shalt thou redeem: thou shalt not appear before me empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:16 - then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your life; and ye shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:20 - And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when thou shalt send him out free from thee, thou shalt not send him out empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:16 - Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:47 - For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word ye shall live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:16 - And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put horns in the [fn]hands of all, and empty pitchers, and torches in the pitchers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:4 - And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith; and Abimelech hired for himself vain and cowardly men, and they went after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:21 - I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Noemin, whereas the Lord has humbled me, and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - And she said to her, He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, Go not empty to thy mother-in-law.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - And they said, If ye send away the ark of the covenant of the Lord God of Israel, do not on any account send it away empty, but by all means render to it an offering for the plague; and then shall ye be healed, and an atonement shall be made for you: should not his hand be thus stayed from off you?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:22 - From the blood of the slain, and from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan returned not empty; and the sword of Saul turned not back empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - And he said to her, Go, borrow for thyself vessels without of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, that there is none of men upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas thou hast told me to destroy his substance without cause?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, (LXX 2:9a) Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? (2:9b) for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; (2:9c) and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, (2:9d) and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: (2:9e) but say some word against the Lord, and die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:5 - What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6 - And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:17 - Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:18 - He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6 - And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, and hast taken away the clothing of the naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - But thou hast sent widows away empty, and hast afflicted orphans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:12 - Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - (for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:21 - until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20 - But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; for they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside from their right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:16 - She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:1 - [fn] Wherefore did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:4 - (LXX 7:5) if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:3 - (LXX 24:3) For none of them that wait on thee shall in any wise be ashamed: let them be ashamed that transgress without cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - (LXX 30:7) Thou hast hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:9 - (LXX 106:9) For he satisfies the empty soul, and fills the hungry soul with good things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:29 - Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who has bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:7 - The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:6 - For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - Thus saith the Lord that made the heaven, this God that [fn]created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

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