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kai G2532

καί (kai) means “and” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

καί Greek · G2532 9,017 tagged occurrences in 5,122 verses

Pronunciation guide: kahee Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2532

καί · kai · and

καί, conj., and I. Copulative. 1. Connecting single words; (a) in general: Mat.2:18, 16:1, Mrk.2:15, Luk.8:15, Heb.1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mat.23:23, Luk.14:21, Rom.7:12, 9:4, al. (b) connecting numerals (WM, §37, 4): Jhn.2:20, Act.13:20; (with) joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mat.8:33, 26:59, Mrk.16:17, Act.5:29, al. 2. Connecting clauses and sentences: Mat.3:12, Act.5:21, al. mult.; esp. (a) where, after the simplicity of the popular language, sentences are paratactically joined (WM, §60, 3; M, Pr., 12; Deiss., LAE, 128ff.): Mat.1:21, 7:25, Mrk.9:5, Jhn.10:3, al.; (b) joining affirmative to negative sentences: Luk.3:14, Jhn.4:11, IIIJhn.10; (with) consecutive, and so: Mat.5:1, 23:32, Heb.3:19, al.; after imperatives, Mat.4:19, Luk.7:7, al.; (d) = καίτοι, and yet: Mat.3:14, 6:26, Mrk.12:12, Luk.18:7 (Field, Notes, 72), 1Co.5:2, al.; (e) beginning an apodosis (= Heb. וְ; so sometimes δέ in cl.), then: Luk.2:21, 7:12, Act.1:10; beginning a question (WM, §53, 3a): Mrk.10:26, Luk.10:29, Jhn.9:36. 3. Epexegetic, and, and indeed, namely (WM, §53, 3c): Luk.3:18, Jhn.1:16, Act.23:6, Rom.1:5, 1Co.3:5, al. 4. In transition: Mat.4:23, Mrk.5:1, 21, Jhn.1:19, al.; so, Hebraistically, καὶ ἐγένετο (וַי:הִי; also ἐγένετο δέ), Mrk.1:9 (cf. Luk.5:1; V. Burton, §§357-60; M, Pr., 14, 16). 5. καὶ . . . καί, both . . . and (for τε . . . καί, see: τε); (a) connecting single words: Mat.10:28, Mrk.4:41, Rom.11:33, al.; (b) clauses and sentences: Mrk.9:13, Jhn.7:28, 1Co.1:22, al. II. Adjunctive, also, even, still: Mat.5:39, 40; Mrk.2:28, al. mult.; esp. with pron., adv., etc., Mat.20:4, Jhn.7:47, al; ὡς κ., Act.11:17; καθὼς κ., Rom.15:7; οὑτω κ., Rom.6:11; διὸ κ., Luk.1:35; ὁ κ. (Deiss., BS, 313ff.), Act.13:9; pleonastically, μετὰ κ.. (Bl., §77, 7; Deiss., BS, 265f,), Php.4:3; τί κ., 1 Co 15:29; ἀλλὰ κ., Luk.14:22, Jhn.5:18, al.; καίγε (M, Pr., 230; Burton, §437), Act.17:27; καίπερ, Heb.5:8; κ. ἐάν, see: ἐάν. ἐάν, contr. fr. εἰ ἄν, conditional particle, representing something as "under certain circumstances actual or liable to happen," but not so definitely expected as in the case of εἰ with ind. (Bl., §65, 4; cf. Jhn.13:17, 1Co.7:36), if haply, if; 1. with subjc. (cl.); (a) pres.: Mat.6:22, Luk.10:6, Jhn.7:17, Rom.2:25, 26 al.; { (b) aor. (= Lat. fut. pf.): Mat.4:9 16:26 (cf. ptcp. in Luk.9:25; M, Pr., 230), Mrk.3:24, Luk.14:34, Jhn.5:43, Rom.7:2, al.; = cl. εἰ, with opt., Jhn.9:22 11:57, Act.9:2; as Heb. אִם = ὅταν, Jhn.12:32 14:3, I Jhn.2:28 3:2, Heb.3:7" (LXX) . 2. C. indic, (as in late writers, fr. Arist. on; see WH, App., 171; VD, MGr. 2, App., §77; Deiss., BS, 201f., LAE, 155, 254; M, Pr., 168, 187; Bl., §65, 4); (a) fut.: Mat.18:19 T, Luk.19:40, Act.7:7; (b) pres.: 1Th.3:8 (see Milligan, in l.). 3. With other particles: ἐ. καί (Bl., §65, 6), Gal.6:1; ἐ. μή (M, Pr., 185, 187; Bl., l.with), with subjc. pres., Mat.10:13, 1Co.8:8, Jas.2:17, 1Jn.3:21; aor., Mat.6:15, Mrk.3:27, Jhn.3:3, Rom.10:15, Gal.1:8 2:16 (see Lft., Ellic., in ll.); ἐ. τε . . . ἐ. τε, [in LXX for אִם . . . אִם, Est.19:13, al.,] Rom.14:8. 4. = cl. ἄν (which see) after relat. pronouns and adverbs (Tdf., Pr., 96; WH, App., 173; M, Pr., 42f.; Bl., §26, 4; Mayser, 152f.; Deiss., BS, 202ff.): ὃς ἐ., Mat.5:19, Mrk.6:22, 23 Luk.17:32, 1Co.6:18, al.; ὅπου ἐ., Mat.8:19; ὁσάκις ἐ., Rev.11:6; οὗ ἐ., 1Co.16:6; καθὸ ἐ., 2Co.8:12; ὅστις ἐ., Gal.5:10. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

and, even, also, namely.

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How translators render G2532

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
and 5167
then 261
but 180
also 143
vvv 141
so 126
even 89
when 78
or 49
yet 44
as well 43
with 28
too 23
as 22
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both 14
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as well as 9
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including 7
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still 6
at this 5
from 5
once 5
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for 4
indeed 4
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again 3
and after 3
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myself 3
one day 3
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they 3
though 3
until 3
along 2
and also 2
and blessed are 2
and let 2
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as do 2
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i tell 2
if you 2
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and the money 1
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and they were holding 1
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and those of 1
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and to have 1
and to show 1
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he who is both 1
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whom 1
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KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
and 7656
also 508
even 106
both 53
but 41
neither 29
then 22
for 18
so 18
that 14
and when 13
yet 12
likewise 11
nor 11
or 11
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Verses containing G2532

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

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  2. 1 Corinthians 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

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  3. 1 Corinthians 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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  4. 1 Corinthians 4:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

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  5. 1 Corinthians 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.

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  6. 1 Corinthians 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

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  7. 1 Corinthians 4:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

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  8. 1 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

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  9. 1 Corinthians 4:11 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

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  10. 1 Corinthians 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

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  11. 1 Corinthians 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

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  12. 1 Corinthians 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only what these arrogant people are saying, but what power they have.

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  13. 1 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

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  14. 1 Corinthians 5:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

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  15. 1 Corinthians 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

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  16. 1 Corinthians 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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  17. 1 Corinthians 5:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

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  18. 1 Corinthians 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

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  19. 1 Corinthians 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!

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  20. 1 Corinthians 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

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  21. 1 Corinthians 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

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  22. 1 Corinthians 6:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

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  23. 1 Corinthians 6:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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  24. 1 Corinthians 6:13 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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  25. 1 Corinthians 6:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

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  26. 1 Corinthians 6:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

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  27. 1 Corinthians 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

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  28. 1 Corinthians 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

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  29. 1 Corinthians 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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  30. 1 Corinthians 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

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  31. 1 Corinthians 7:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

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  32. 1 Corinthians 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

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  33. 1 Corinthians 7:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

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  34. 1 Corinthians 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

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  35. 1 Corinthians 7:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

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  36. 1 Corinthians 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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  37. 1 Corinthians 7:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.

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  38. 1 Corinthians 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

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  39. 1 Corinthians 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.

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  40. 1 Corinthians 7:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

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  41. 1 Corinthians 7:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;

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  42. 1 Corinthians 7:30 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;

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  43. 1 Corinthians 7:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

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  44. 1 Corinthians 7:34 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

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  45. 1 Corinthians 7:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

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  46. 1 Corinthians 7:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

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  47. 1 Corinthians 7:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

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  48. 1 Corinthians 7:38 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

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  49. 1 Corinthians 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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  50. 1 Corinthians 8:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

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