2001 Translation

KAIROS, kairos

Sounds Like: kai-ROS

Translations: time, a time, season, a season, appointed time, an appointed time, opportune time, an opportune time

From the root: ΚΑΙΡΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a specific, opportune, or appointed time, often implying a critical moment or a season of activity, as opposed to chronological time (chronos). It is used to denote the right or proper time for something to happen or be done.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2540 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:11, 2:44
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:4

Codex Sinaiticus

• 2 Esdras — 10:13
• Esther — 2:12
• 1 Maccabees — 2:49, 8:25, 8:27, 9:10, 12:1
• 4 Maccabees — 3:19
• Psalms — 68:14, 80:16, 101:14, 118:126
• Ecclesiastes — 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4, 3:5, 3:6, 3:7, 3:8, 3:17, 8:6, 9:11
• Song of Solomon — 2:12
• Wisdom — 2:5
• Sirach — 11:19, 18:26, 38:13
• Jeremiah — 27:27, 28:6
• Haggai — 1:2, 1:4
• Matthew — 26:18
• Mark — 1:15, 11:13, 13:33
• John — 7:6, 7:8
• 1 Corinthians — 7:29
• 2 Corinthians — 6:2
• 2 Timothy — 4:3, 4:6
• 1 Peter — 4:17
• Revelation — 1:3, 22:10

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 2:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:161

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 8 — 4:100
• Book 10 — 9:162
• Book 11 — 5:172
• Book 12 — 7:302, 11:425
• Book 13 — 9:267
• Book 14 — 13:358
• Book 15 — 4:99
• Book 17 — 2:28, 2:37, 3:51
• Book 18 — 3:74, 7:247, 9:313
• Book 19 — 1:71, 1:99, 1:113

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:5, 9:21, 34:3
• Book Two — 4:1
• Book Three — 7:73
• Book Five — 1:20, 1:29
• Book Seven — 6:32, 8:72, 8:107

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 8:1, 31:5

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 9:2

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 8:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 6:13
• Numbers — 14:9
• Judges — 13:23
• 1 Samuel — 9:16, 20:12
• 1 Kings — 18:29
• 2 Chronicles — 21:19
• Esther — 2:12
• Judith — 13:5
• 1 Maccabees — 2:49, 8:25, 8:27, 9:10, 12:1
• 2 Maccabees — 4:17
• 4 Maccabees — 3:19
• Psalms — 68:14, 80:16, 101:14, 118:126
• Ecclesiastes — 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4, 3:5, 3:6, 3:7, 3:8, 3:17, 8:6, 9:11
• Song of Solomon — 2:12
• Sirach — 11:19, 18:26, 38:13
• Jeremiah — 26:21, 27:27, 27:31, 28:6
• Lamentations — 4:19
• Ezekiel — 7:4, 7:12, 16:8
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:9, 7:22, 12:1
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:9, 7:22, 11:35
• Amos — 5:13
• Micah — 2:3
• Haggai — 1:2, 1:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 21:34, 26:18
• Mark — 1:15, 11:13, 13:33
• Luke — 21:8
• John — 7:6, 7:8
• 1 Corinthians — 7:29
• 2 Corinthians — 6:2
• 2 Timothy — 4:3, 4:6
• 1 Peter — 4:17
• Revelation — 1:3, 11:18, 22:10

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΙΡΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΑΚΑΙΡΩΣ — untimely, unseasonably, out of season, at the wrong time
• ΙΡΟΙΣ — times, seasons, opportunities, proper times
• ΚΑΙΡΑΜΟΥ — of time, of the right time, of the opportune time, of the season, of the appointed time
• ΚΑΙΡΙΑ — opportune, seasonable, critical, fitting, a critical moment, a fitting time
• ΚΑΙΡΙΑΝ — opportune, timely, critical, fitting, a critical moment, a timely occasion
• ΚΑΙΡΙΩΣ — opportunely, seasonably, at the right time, fitly, appropriately
• ΚΑΙΡΙΩΤΑΤΑ — most opportunely, most seasonably, most critically, at the most fitting time
• ΚΑΙΡΟ — time, a time, season, a season, opportunity, an opportunity, due time, a due time, (of) time, (of) season, (of) opportunity
• ΚΑΙΡΟΙ — times, seasons, opportune times, appointed times, proper times
• ΚΑΙΡΟΙΣ — to times, in times, for times, of times, seasons, opportunities
• ΚΑΙΡΟΝ — time, a time, season, a season, opportune time, a opportune time, proper time, a proper time
• ΚΑΙΡΟΥ — of time, of a season, of the right time, of an opportune time, of a period
• ΚΑΙΡΟΥΣ — times, seasons, opportune times, appointed times
• ΚΑΙΡΩ — to time, to season, to opportunity, to a proper time, to a fixed time, to a due season, to a critical time
• ΚΑΙΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ — of times, of seasons, of opportunities, of due measure
• ΚΑΙΡΩΝ — of time, of season, of opportunity, of the proper time, of the appointed time
• ΚΕΡΟΝ — time, a time, season, opportunity, a fitting time, due time
• ΟΚΑΙΡΟΣ — the time, the opportune time, the right time, the season
• ΟΝΚΑΙΡΟΝ — at which time, at the time when, when
• ΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΡΟΙΣ — to the times, for the times, to the seasons, for the seasons, to the opportunities, for the opportunities
• ΤΟΝΚΑΙΡΟΝ — the time, the season, the opportune time, the right time

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