ΚΕΝΟΣ, κενος
KENOS, kenos
Sounds Like: KEH-nos
Translations: empty, vain, a vain, useless, a useless, foolish, a foolish
From the root: ΚΕΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as empty, hollow, or devoid of content. It can refer to physical emptiness, but often carries the sense of being futile, useless, or without purpose or value. It can also describe a person as foolish or shallow. It is used to describe a state of being or a characteristic.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2756 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 18:15
Codex Sinaiticus
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 64:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 23:15, 34:20
- Deuteronomy — 16:16, 32:47
- Nehemiah — 5:13
- Psalms — 7:5
- Job — 7:16
- Sirach — 32:6
- Enoch — 18:15
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- 1 Corinthians — 15:58
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 2:5
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΕΝΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΚΕΝΑ — empty, void, vain, useless, a void thing, empty things
- ΚΕΝΑ — empty, vain, worthless, hollow, empty things, vain things
- ΚΕΝΑΙ — empty, vain, a vain, useless, a useless, foolish, a foolish
- ΚΕΝΑΙΟΝ — empty, vain, futile, an empty thing, a vain thing
- ΚΕΝΑΙΟΣ — empty, vain, a vain, worthless, futile, a futile
- ΚΕΝΑΙΣ — empty, vain, worthless, useless, idle, a vain, an empty
- ΚΕΝΑΟΝ — empty, vain, a vain thing, a worthless thing, without effect
- ΚΕΝΑΣ — empty, vain, worthless
- ΚΕΝΕ — empty, vain, useless, without effect, without content, without purpose
- ΚΕΝΗ — empty, vain, worthless, a vain thing, a worthless thing
- ΚΕΝΗΝ — empty, a empty, vain, a vain, worthless, a worthless, without effect, a without effect
- ΚΕΝΗΝΔΕ — to an empty place, to a vain place, to a hollow place, to a useless place
- ΚΕΝΗΣ — empty, vain, without effect, of no effect, of no purpose, of no result, without success, without content, without substance
- ΚΕΝΟ — empty, vain, without effect, useless, a void, a vacuum, in vain, empty-handed
- ΚΕΝΟΙ — empty, vain, a vain, futile, a futile, worthless, a worthless, without effect, a without effect
- ΚΕΝΟΙΣ — (to) empty, (to) vain, (to) foolish, (to) worthless, (to) void, (to) hollow
- ΚΕΝΟΝ — empty, a void, vain, in vain, to no purpose, useless, a useless thing
- ΚΕΝΟΥ — empty, vain, without effect, of empty things, of vain things, of things without effect
- ΚΕΝΟΥΣ — empty, vain, without effect, without result, a vain, a resultless
- ΚΕΝΩΝ — of empty, of vain, of worthless, of foolish
- ΚΕΝΩΣ — in vain, vainly, emptily, without effect
- ΚΕΝ‾Η‾ — empty, vain, without effect, useless, a useless, a vain
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