καί
and
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Conjunction
- A joining word linking words or clauses.
Every verse where G2532 appears in the Book of Colossians — 65 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Colossians
- Colossians 1:1 καὶ conj Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
- Colossians 1:2 καὶ καὶ conj conj to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Colossians 1:3 καὶ conj We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
- Colossians 1:4 καὶ conj having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
- Colossians 1:6 καὶ καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj conj which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;
- Colossians 1:8 καὶ conj who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
- Colossians 1:9 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Colossians 1:10 καὶ conj that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
- Colossians 1:11 καὶ conj strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;
- Colossians 1:13 καὶ conj who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
- Colossians 1:16 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
- Colossians 1:17 καὶ καὶ conj conj He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
- Colossians 1:18 καὶ conj He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
- Colossians 1:20 καὶ conj and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
- Colossians 1:21 καὶ καὶ conj conj You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
- Colossians 1:22 καὶ καὶ conj conj yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,
- Colossians 1:23 καὶ καὶ conj conj if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Colossians 1:24 καὶ conj Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;
- Colossians 1:26 καὶ conj the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
- Colossians 1:28 καὶ conj whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
- Colossians 1:29 καὶ conj for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
- Colossians 2:1 καὶ καὶ conj conj For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
- Colossians 2:2 καὶ conj that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
- Colossians 2:3 καὶ conj in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
- Colossians 2:5 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
- Colossians 2:7 καὶ καὶ conj conj rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
- Colossians 2:8 καὶ καὶ conj conj 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.
- Colossians 2:10 καὶ καὶ conj conj and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
- Colossians 2:11 καὶ conj in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
- Colossians 2:12 καὶ conj having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
- Colossians 2:13 καὶ καὶ conj conj You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
- Colossians 2:14 καὶ conj wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
- Colossians 2:15 καὶ conj having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
- Colossians 2:18 καὶ conj Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
- Colossians 2:19 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
- Colossians 2:22 καὶ conj (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
- Colossians 2:23 καὶ καὶ conj conj Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
- Colossians 3:3 καὶ conj For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- Colossians 3:4 καὶ conj When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
- Colossians 3:5 καὶ conj Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- Colossians 3:7 καὶ conj You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
- Colossians 3:8 καὶ conj but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
- Colossians 3:10 καὶ conj and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
- Colossians 3:11 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj where there can't be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- Colossians 3:12 καὶ conj Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- Colossians 3:13 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
- Colossians 3:15 καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
- Colossians 3:16 καὶ conj Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Colossians 3:17 καὶ conj Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
- Colossians 3:19 καὶ conj Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
- Colossians 3:23 καὶ conj And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
- Colossians 3:25 καὶ conj But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
- Colossians 4:1 καὶ καὶ conj conj Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
- Colossians 4:3 καὶ καὶ conj conj praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
- Colossians 4:7 καὶ καὶ conj conj All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
- Colossians 4:8 καὶ conj I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
- Colossians 4:9 καὶ conj together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.
- Colossians 4:10 καὶ conj Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"),
- Colossians 4:11 καὶ conj and Jesus who is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God, men who have been a comfort to me.
- Colossians 4:12 καὶ conj Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
- Colossians 4:13 καὶ καὶ conj conj For I testify about him, that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.
- Colossians 4:14 καὶ conj Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.
- Colossians 4:15 καὶ καὶ conj conj Greet the brothers who are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly that is in his house.
- Colossians 4:16 καὶ καὶ καὶ καὶ conj conj conj conj When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.
- Colossians 4:17 καὶ conj Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, και (kaí) means “and.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:2. With 5,125 verses in 27 books, it is one of the most common word in the Greek New Testament. Sharing its root, it stands alongside καγω, καιγε and καιπερ. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2532 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5,125
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5,125 distinct verses.
- 27 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 27 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Greek words (rank 2 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5,125 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5,125 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2,619 verses · 51%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1,489 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 1,026 verses · 20%
- Johannine 995 verses · 19%
- Revelation 370 verses · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 277 verses · 5%
- Hebrews 173 verses · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: And 8,097×, Also 500×, Even 101×
- American Standard Version: And 7,750×, Also 433×, Even 110×
- Berean Standard Bible: And 5,240×, Then 278×, Also 156×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 7,949×, Also 596×, But 132×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2532 across 9,091 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 72 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 156 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2532 across 8,928 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 227 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 83 further occurrences.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2532 across 6,415 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 44 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2,467 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2532 across 9,016 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- and, also, even, indeed, but Frequency count based on 1894 Scrivener Greek New Testament.
Word origin
Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force
Apparently a primary particle having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and also even so then too etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words : - and also both but even for if indeed likewise moreover or so that then therefore when yea yet.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2532 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ kaì | Conjunction | Matthew 1:2 | 8,661 |
| Καὶ Kaì | Conjunction | Matthew 4:21 | 274 |
| καί kaí | Conjunction | Matthew 15:4 | 29 |
| Καί Kaí | Conjunction | Luke 19:39 | 4 |
| και kai | Conjunction | John 7:53 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2532, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- καγω kagṓ G2504 and I
- καιγε kaíge G2534 and indeed
- καιπερ kaíper G2539 although
- καιτοι kaítoi G2543 and yet
- κακει kakeî G2546 and there
- κακειθεν kakeîthen G2547 of place
- κακεινος kakeînos G2548 and he
- καν kán G2579 and if
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word και appears 47,643 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 18,587 verses in 38 books.
- 47,643
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 18,587
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:1 καί
- Exodus 1:3 καί
- Leviticus 1:1 καί
- Numbers 1:1 καί
- Deuteronomy 1:1 καί
- Joshua 1:1 καί
- Judges 1:1 καί
- Ruth 1:1 καί
- 1 Samuel 1:1 καί
- 2 Samuel 1:1 καί
- 1 Kings 1:1 καί
- 2 Kings 1:1 καί
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2532) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 18,587. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:1 καί In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- Genesis 1:2 καί Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Genesis 1:3 καί God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- Genesis 1:4 καί God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:5 καί God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
- Genesis 1:6 καί God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:7 καί God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:8 καί God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 καί God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:10 καί God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:11 καί God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 καί The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:13 καί There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
- Genesis 1:14 καί God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 καί and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:16 καί God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
- Genesis 1:17 καί God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:18 καί and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:19 καί There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
- Genesis 1:20 καί God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Genesis 1:21 καί God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22 καί God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
- Genesis 1:23 καί There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
- Genesis 1:24 καί God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:25 καί God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:26 καί God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
- Genesis 1:27 καί God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:28 καί God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
- Genesis 1:29 καί God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:30 καί To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 1:31 καί God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:1 καί The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Genesis 2:2 καί On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3 καί God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Genesis 2:4 καί This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
- Genesis 2:5 καί No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 2:6 καί but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 2:7 καί Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Genesis 2:8 καί Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- Genesis 2:9 καί Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:12 καί and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Genesis 2:13 καί The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- Genesis 2:14 καί The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 2:15 καί Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Genesis 2:16 καί Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:17 καί but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 2:18 καί Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- Genesis 2:19 καί Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 2:20 καί The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.
- Genesis 2:21 καί Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2532) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
