καινός
kainos
new
Lexicon Entry
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What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word καινός (kainos) is defined as "new." It appears 44 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. The word does not necessarily imply novelty or something that has just come into existence, but rather something that is fresh, improved, or of a different kind. In terms of usage, καινός is often used to describe something that is novel or unexpected, such as a new covenant (Hebrews 8:13) or a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). It can also describe something that is improved or enhanced, such as new wine (Matthew 9:17) or new cloth (Matthew 9:16). The word is also used to describe something that is of a different kind or quality, such as new heavens and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13). The significance of καινός lies in its emphasis on transformation and renewal. It suggests that something old and worn out can be replaced by something new and improved, whether it be a person, a community, or the world itself.
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Occurrences in Scripture
44 total occurrences across the text
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
Matthew 13:52He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
Matthew 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew 26:29But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Matthew 27:60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
Mark 1:27They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
Mark 2:21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
Mark 2:22No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
Mark 14:25Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”
Mark 16:17These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
Luke 5:36He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:36He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:36He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
Luke 22:20Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
John 19:41Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Acts 17:19They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Acts 17:21Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
1 Corinthians 11:25In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
2 Corinthians 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Galatians 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Ephesians 2:15having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
Ephesians 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
Hebrews 8:8For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Hebrews 8:13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Hebrews 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
2 Peter 3:13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
1 John 2:7Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.
1 John 2:8Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
2 John 1:5Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
Revelation 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
Revelation 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
Revelation 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
Revelation 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
Revelation 14:3They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
Revelation 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Revelation 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:5He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”