G2756Adjective18 times in the New Testament (critical text)Where it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Mark 12:3κενόν
But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
- Luke 1:53κενούς
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Acts 4:25κενά
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- 1 Corinthians 15:10κενὴ
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
- Philippians 2:16κενὸν
as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5κενὸν
For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and that our labor might have been in vain.
Abbott-Smith
[in LXX chiefly for רִיק and cognate forms ;]
empty (Gen.37:24, Jdg.7:16). Metaphorical,
SYN.: μάταιος, of the aim or effect of an action, κ. of its quality (Lft. on Cl. Rom., 1Co., § 7; Tr., Syn., xlix)
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Sources: Abbott-Smith’s Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922, public domain) and glosses from STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAGNT (Greek New Testament, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.