κενόω
to empty
‘to empty’ is one of 3 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2758 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 2 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.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 1:17 κενωθῇ aor pass subj 3sg For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Gospel--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.
- 1 Corinthians 9:15 κενώσει fut act ind 3sg But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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.
The Greek verb κενοω centers on the idea of “to empty.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 2 of 5 verses. Debuting at Romans 4:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2758 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
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 40%
- Romans 1 verse 20%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
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 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 100%
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: Is made void 1×, Made 1×, Reputation 1×
- American Standard Version: Be made void 1×, Emptied 1×, Is made void 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be emptied of power 1×, Emptied 1×, Is useless 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be emptied 1×, Be futile 1×, Empty 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2758 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2758 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2758 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2758 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- of Christ, he laid aside equality with or the form of God
- deprive of force, render vain, useless, of no effect
- cause a thing to be seen to be empty, hollow, false
Word origin
Derived from κενος (kenós) (G2756) — empty.
From G2756 ; to make empty that is (figuratively) to abase neutralize falsify : - make (of none effect of no reputation void) be in vain.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2758 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κενωθῇ kenōthē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 1:17 | 2 |
| κεκένωται kekénōtai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 4:14 | 1 |
| κενώσει kenṓsei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 9:15 | 1 |
| ἐκένωσεν ekénōsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Philippians 2:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2758, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κενοδοξος kenódoxos G2755 vain glorious
- κενοφωνια kenophōnía G2757 empty talk
- κενως kenōs G2761 in vain
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κενοω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Jeremiah 14:2 κενόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2758) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Jeremiah 14:2 κενόω Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
- Jeremiah 15:9 κενόω She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2758) 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.
