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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

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Occurrences

9,023 total
  1. Galatians 2:9καὶ · And; καὶ; καὶ · and; καὶ · and
    And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
  2. Galatians 2:10καὶ
    They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
  3. Galatians 2:12καὶ · and
    For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
  4. Galatians 2:13καὶ; καὶ; καὶ · even
    The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.
  5. Galatians 2:14καὶ · and
    When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
  6. Galatians 2:15καὶ · and
    We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
  7. Galatians 2:16καὶ · So we, too; καὶ · and
    …know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
  8. Galatians 2:17καὶ
    But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!
  9. Galatians 2:20καὶ · and
    I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
  10. Galatians 3:4καὶ
    Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?
  11. Galatians 3:5καὶ · and
    Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?
  12. Galatians 3:6καὶ · and
    So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
  13. Galatians 3:16καὶ · and; Καὶ · and; Καὶ · and
    The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
  14. Galatians 3:17καὶ
    What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
  15. Galatians 3:28καὶ · [nor]
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  16. Galatians 4:2καὶ · and
    He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
  17. Galatians 4:3καὶ · also
    So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
  18. Galatians 4:7καὶ · [you are] also
    So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.
  19. Galatians 4:9καὶ · and
    But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
  20. Galatians 4:10καὶ · and; καὶ · and; καὶ · and
    You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
  21. Galatians 4:14καὶ · And
    And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.
  22. Galatians 4:18καὶ · and
    Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.
  23. Galatians 4:20καὶ · and
    …how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you.
  24. Galatians 4:22καὶ · and
    For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
  25. Galatians 4:27καὶ · and
    For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
  26. Galatians 4:29καὶ
    At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
  27. Galatians 4:30καὶ · and
    But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”
  28. Galatians 5:1καὶ · and
    It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
  29. Galatians 5:12καὶ
    As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
  30. Galatians 5:15καὶ · and
    But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
  31. Galatians 5:16καὶ · and
    So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  32. Galatians 5:21καὶ · and
    …and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  33. Galatians 5:24καὶ · and
    Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  34. Galatians 5:25καὶ
    Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
  35. Galatians 6:1καὶ; καὶ · also
    Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
  36. Galatians 6:2καὶ · and
    Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  37. Galatians 6:4καὶ; καὶ · and
    Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
  38. Galatians 6:7καὶ
    Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.