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καί

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greekNew TestamentConjunction9,023 occurrences27 books5,137 verses

Definition

καί,

conj.,

and

I. Copulative.

1. Connecting single words;

(a) in general: Matthew 2:18; 16:1, Mark 2:15, Luke 8:15, Hebrews 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Matthew 23:23, Luke 14:21, Romans 7:12; 9:4, al.

(b) connecting numerals (WM, §37, 4): John 2:20, Acts 13:20;

(with) joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Matthew 8:33; 26:59, Mark 16:17, Acts 5:29, al.

2. Connecting clauses and sentences: Matthew 3:12, Acts 5:21, al. mult.; esp.

(a) where, after the simplicity of the popular language, sentences are paratactically joined (WM, §60, 3; M, Pr., 12; Deiss., LAE, 128ff.): Matthew 1:21; 7:25, Mark 9:5, John 10:3, al.;

(b) joining affirmative to negative sentences: Luke 3:14, John 4:11, IIIJhn.10;

(with) consecutive, and so: Matthew 5:1; 23:32, Hebrews 3:19, al.; after imperatives, Matthew 4:19, Luke 7:7, al.;

(d) = καίτοι, and yet: Matthew 3:14; 6:26, Mark 12:12, Luke 18:7 (Field, Notes, 72), 1 Corinthians 5:2, al.;

(e) beginning an apodosis (= Heb. וְ; so sometimes δέ in cl.), then: Luke 2:21; 7:12, Acts 1:10; beginning a question (WM, §53, 3a): Mark 10:26, Luke 10:29, John 9:36.

3. Epexegetic, and, and indeed, namely (WM, §53, 3c): Luke 3:18, John 1:16, Acts 23:6, Romans 1:5, 1 Corinthians 3:5, al.

4. In transition: Matthew 4:23, Mark 5:1, 21, John 1:19, al.; so, Hebraistically, καὶ ἐγένετο (וַי:הִי; also ἐγένετο δέ), Mark 1:9 (cf. Luke 5:1; V. Burton, §§357-60; M, Pr., 14, 16).

5. καὶ . . . καί, both . . . and (for τε . . . καί, see: τε);

(a) connecting single words: Matthew 10:28, Mark 4:41, Romans 11:33, al.;

(b) clauses and sentences: Mark 9:13, John 7:28, 1 Corinthians 1:22, al.

II. Adjunctive, also, even, still: Matthew 5:39, 40; Mark 2:28, al. mult.; esp. with pron., adv., etc., Matthew 20:4, John 7:47, al; ὡς κ., Acts 11:17; καθὼς κ., Romans 15:7; οὑτω κ., Romans 6:11; διὸ κ., Luke 1:35; ὁ κ. (Deiss., BS, 313ff.), Acts 13:9; pleonastically, μετὰ κ.. (Bl., §77, 7; Deiss., BS, 265f,), Philippians 4:3; τί κ., 1 Corinthians 15:29; ἀλλὰ κ., Luke 14:22, John 5:18, al.; καίγε (M, Pr., 230; Burton, §437), Acts 17:27; καίπερ, Hebrews 5:8; κ. ἐάν, see: ἐάν.

ἐάν, contr. fr. εἰ ἄν,

conditional particle,

representing something as "under certain circumstances actual or liable to happen," but not so definitely expected as in the case of εἰ with ind. (Bl., §65, 4; cf. John 13:17, 1 Corinthians 7:36), if haply, if;

1. with subjc. (cl.);

(a) pres.: Matthew 6:22, Luke 10:6, John 7:17, Romans 2:25, 26 al.;

{ __(b) aor. (= Lat. fut. pf.): Matthew 4:9; 16:26 (cf. ptcp. in Luke 9:25; M, Pr., 230), Mark 3:24, Luke 14:34, John 5:43, Romans 7:2, al.; = cl. εἰ, with opt., John 9:22; 11:57, Acts 9:2; as Heb. אִם = ὅταν, John 12:32; 14:3, I John 2:28; 3:2, Hebrews 3:7" (LXX) .

2. C. indic, (as in late writers, fr. Arist. on; see WH, App., 171; VD, MGr. 2, App., §77; Deiss., BS, 201f., LAE, 155, 254; M, Pr., 168, 187; Bl., §65, 4);

(a) fut.: Matthew 18:19 T, Luke 19:40, Acts 7:7;

(b) pres.: 1 Thessalonians 3:8 (see Milligan, in l.).

3. With other particles: ἐ. καί (Bl., §65, 6), Galatians 6:1; ἐ. μή (M, Pr., 185, 187; Bl., l.with), with subjc. pres., Matthew 10:13, 1 Corinthians 8:8, James 2:17, 1 John 3:21; aor., Matthew 6:15, Mark 3:27, John 3:3, Romans 10:15, Galatians 1:8; 2:16 (see Lft., Ellic., in ll.); ἐ. τε . . . ἐ. τε, [in LXX for אִם . . . אִם, Esther 19:13, al.,] Romans 14:8.

4. = cl. ἄν (which see) after relat. pronouns and adverbs (Tdf., Pr., 96; WH, App., 173; M, Pr., 42f.; Bl., §26, 4; Mayser, 152f.; Deiss., BS, 202ff.): ὃς ἐ., Matthew 5:19, Mark 6:22, 23, Luke 17:32, 1 Corinthians 6:18, al.; ὅπου ἐ., Matthew 8:19; ὁσάκις ἐ., Revelation 11:6; οὗ ἐ., 1 Corinthians 16:6; καθὸ ἐ., 2 Corinthians 8:12; ὅστις ἐ., Galatians 5:10.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as καί:

Usage patterns

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

9,023 total
  1. 1 Corinthians 4:8καὶ
    Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:9καὶ; καὶ · as well as
    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
  3. 1 Corinthians 4:11καὶ; καὶ · and; καὶ; καὶ; καὶ
    To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
  4. 1 Corinthians 4:12καὶ
    We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
  5. 1 Corinthians 4:17καὶ · and
    That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.
  6. 1 Corinthians 4:19καὶ · and [then]
    But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.
  7. 1 Corinthians 5:1καὶ · and
    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
  8. 1 Corinthians 5:2καὶ · And; καὶ
    And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
  9. 1 Corinthians 5:4καὶ · and
    When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
  10. 1 Corinthians 5:7καὶ
    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
  11. 1 Corinthians 5:8καὶ · and; καὶ · and
    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
  12. 1 Corinthians 5:10καὶ · and
    I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
  13. 1 Corinthians 6:1καὶ · [instead of]
    If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
  14. 1 Corinthians 6:2καὶ · And
    Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
  15. 1 Corinthians 6:6καὶ · and
    Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
  16. 1 Corinthians 6:8καὶ · and; καὶ · even
    Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
  17. 1 Corinthians 6:11καὶ · And; καὶ · and
    And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
  18. 1 Corinthians 6:13καὶ · and; καὶ · both; καὶ; καὶ · and
    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  19. 1 Corinthians 6:14καὶ; καὶ · and
    By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
  20. 1 Corinthians 6:19καὶ
    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
  21. 1 Corinthians 7:2καὶ · and
    But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
  22. 1 Corinthians 7:3καὶ
    The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
  23. 1 Corinthians 7:4καὶ
    The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
  24. 1 Corinthians 7:5καὶ · Then
    Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
  25. 1 Corinthians 7:7καὶ
    I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
  26. 1 Corinthians 7:8καὶ · and
    Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
  27. 1 Corinthians 7:11καὶ; καὶ · And
    But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.
  28. 1 Corinthians 7:12καὶ · and
    To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
  29. 1 Corinthians 7:13καὶ · And; καὶ · and
    And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.
  30. 1 Corinthians 7:14καὶ · and
    For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  31. 1 Corinthians 7:17καὶ
    Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
  32. 1 Corinthians 7:19καὶ · and
    Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
  33. 1 Corinthians 7:21καὶ
    Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.
  34. 1 Corinthians 7:28καὶ; καὶ · And
    But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.