ΚΕΝΟΥΣ, κενους
KENOUS, kenous
Sounds Like: keh-NOOS
Translations: empty, vain, without effect, without result, a vain, a resultless
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, like an empty vessel, or to a lack of substance or meaning, indicating something is vain, useless, or without effect. It is often used to describe actions or efforts that yield no positive outcome.
Inflection: Masculine, Accusative, Plural
Strong’s number: G2756 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:66
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 8:2
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 6:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Luke — 1:53
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
- ΚΕΝΟΣ — empty, vain, a vain, useless, a useless, foolish, a foolish
- ΚΕΝΟΥ — empty, vain, without effect, of empty things, of vain things, of things without effect
- 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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