καιρός
time
‘time’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
2 verses where G2540 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 8:29 καιροῦ n gen sg masc Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
- Matthew 16:3 καιρῶν n gen pl masc In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
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, καιρος (kairós) means “time.” It first appears in Matthew 8:29. It turns up in 80 verses across 19 books, a moderately common footprint. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 80-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2540 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 →
- 80
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 80 distinct verses.
- 19 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
- #200
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 200 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 80 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 80 distinct verses.
- Gospels 29 verses · 36%
- Pauline corpus 29 verses · 36%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 26%
- Johannine 7 verses · 9%
- Revelation 5 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 5%
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: Time 51×, Times 11×, Season 6×
- American Standard Version: Time 37×, Season 15×, Seasons 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Time 44×, Times 9×, Appointed time 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Time 64×, Times 10×, Seasons 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2540 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2540 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2540 across 82 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2540 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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.
- due measure
- a measure of time, a larger or smaller portion of time, hence:
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; an occasion that is set or proper time : - X always opportunity (convenient due) season (due short while) time a while. Compare G5550 .
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G2540 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καιρῷ kairō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:25 | 24 |
| καιρὸν kairòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:20 | 19 |
| καιρὸς kairòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 21:34 | 15 |
| καιροῦ kairoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 8:29 | 7 |
| καιροὺς kairoùs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 1:7 | 5 |
| καιροῖς kairoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 21:41 | 5 |
| καιροὶ kairoì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 21:24 | 3 |
| καιρῶν kairō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 16:3 | 3 |
| καιρόν kairón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 13:11 | 2 |
| καιρός kairós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 26:18 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καιρος appears 297 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 253 verses in 32 books.
- 297
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 253
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 32 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:14 καιρός
- Exodus 8:28 καιρός
- Leviticus 15:25 καιρός
- Numbers 9:3 καιρός
- Deuteronomy 1:9 καιρός
- Joshua 5:2 καιρός
- Judges 4:4 καιρός
- 1 Samuel 1:20 καιρός
- 2 Samuel 11:1 καιρός
- 1 Kings 11:4 καιρός
- 2 Kings 4:16 καιρός
- 1 Chronicles 9:25 καιρός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2540) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 253. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:14 καιρός 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 6:13 καιρός God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 17:21 καιρός But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
- Genesis 17:23 καιρός Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Genesis 17:26 καιρός In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
- Genesis 18:10 καιρός He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 18:14 καιρός Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
- Genesis 21:2 καιρός Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Genesis 21:22 καιρός It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
- Genesis 29:34 καιρός She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 30:20 καιρός Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:41 καιρός It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
- Genesis 38:1 καιρός It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Exodus 8:28 καιρός Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me."
- Exodus 9:4 καιρός Yahweh will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'"
- Exodus 9:14 καιρός For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Exodus 13:10 καιρός You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- Exodus 23:14 καιρός "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
- Exodus 23:15 καιρός You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
- Exodus 23:17 καιρός Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
- Exodus 34:18 καιρός "You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
- Exodus 34:23 καιρός Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Exodus 34:24 καιρός For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
- Leviticus 15:25 καιρός "'If a woman has a discharge of her blood many days not in the time of her period, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her period; all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness shall be as in the days of her period: she is unclean.
- Leviticus 23:4 καιρός "'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.
- Leviticus 26:4 καιρός then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Numbers 9:3 καιρός On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-- according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
- Numbers 9:7 καιρός Those men said to him, "We are unclean because of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season among the children of Israel?"
- Numbers 9:13 καιρός But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 14:9 καιρός Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.
- Numbers 22:4 καιρός Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 23:23 καιρός Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
- Deuteronomy 1:9 καιρός I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
- Deuteronomy 1:16 καιρός I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
- Deuteronomy 1:18 καιρός I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
- Deuteronomy 2:34 καιρός We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
- Deuteronomy 3:4 καιρός We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:8 καιρός We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;
- Deuteronomy 3:12 καιρός This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Deuteronomy 3:18 καιρός I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 καιρός I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 3:23 καιρός I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,
- Deuteronomy 4:14 καιρός Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 5:5 καιρός (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn't go up onto the mountain;) saying,
- Deuteronomy 9:19 καιρός For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
- Deuteronomy 9:20 καιρός Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 καιρός At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:8 καιρός At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
- Deuteronomy 10:10 καιρός I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Yahweh listened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 16:6 καιρός but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2540) 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.
