Occurrences
Kenós occurs 18 times in 16 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Mark (1), Luke (3), Acts (1), 1 Corinthians (3), 2 Corinthians (1), Galatians (1), Ephesians (1), Philippians (1), Colossians (1), 1 Thessalonians (2), James (1)
- Mark 12:3 — And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty (κενὸν).
- Luke 1:53 — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away (κενούς).
- Luke 20:10 — And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty (κενὸν).
- Luke 20:11 — And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty (κενὸν).
- Acts 4:25 — Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things (κενά)?
- 1 Corinthians 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain (κενὴ); but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- 1 Corinthians 15:14 — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain (κενὸν), and your faith is also vain.
- 1 Corinthians 15:14 — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain (κενὴ).
- 1 Corinthians 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain (κενὸς) in the Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1 — We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain (κενὸν).
- Galatians 2:2 — And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain (κενὸν).
- Ephesians 5:6 — Let no man deceive you with vain (κενοῖς) words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Philippians 2:16 — Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain (κενὸν), neither laboured in vain.
- Philippians 2:16 — Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain (κενὸν).
- Colossians 2:8 — Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain (κενῆς) deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:1 — For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain (κενὴ):
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5 — For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain (κενὸν).
- James 2:20 — But wilt thou know, O vain (κενέ) man, that faith without works is dead?