κενός
kenos (G2756)
empty
AI Word Study
The Greek word κενός (kenos) is defined as "empty." This word is used 18 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. In its most basic sense, κενός refers to a physical absence or void, such as an empty vessel or a hollow space. The range of usage for κενός is diverse, encompassing both literal and figurative meanings. It can describe a physical emptiness, like an empty house or a hollow tree, but it can also convey a sense of spiritual or emotional void, such as a heart that is empty of joy or a soul that is empty of hope. This word is often used in contrast to something that is full or complete, highlighting the idea that κενός is a state of lack or deficiency. The significance of κενός lies in its ability to convey a sense of longing or desire for something more. When something is empty, it is not just a physical state, but also a emotional one. The use of κενός in the Bible often serves to highlight the human experience of feeling incomplete or unfulfilled, and the need for something or someone to fill that void.
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They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.