καί

kai

Greek G2532 Conjunction 9,023 occurrences in 5,137 verses
καί 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;

(c) 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;

(c) 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.

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Concordance 5,137 verses

  1. Matthew 1:2 καὶ

    Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

  2. Matthew 1:3 καὶ

    Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

  3. Matthew 1:11 καὶ

    and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

  4. Matthew 1:17 καὶκαὶ

    In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.

  5. Matthew 1:19 καὶ

    Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and was unwilling to disgrace her publicly, he resolved to divorce her quietly.

  6. Matthew 1:21 καὶ

    She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

  7. Matthew 1:23 καὶκαὶ

    “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

  8. Matthew 1:24 καὶ

    When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.

  9. Matthew 1:25 καὶκαὶ

    But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.

  10. Matthew 2:2 καὶ

    asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”

  11. Matthew 2:3 καὶ

    When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

  12. Matthew 2:4 καὶκαὶ

    And when he had assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

  13. Matthew 2:6 Καὶ

    ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”

  14. Matthew 2:8 καὶ

    And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”

  15. Matthew 2:9 καὶ

    After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was.

  16. Matthew 2:11 καὶκαὶκαὶκαὶκαὶ

    On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

  17. Matthew 2:12 Καὶ

    And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.

  18. Matthew 2:13 καὶκαὶκαὶ

    When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

  19. Matthew 2:14 καὶκαὶ

    So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

  20. Matthew 2:15 καὶ

    where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”

  21. Matthew 2:16 καὶκαὶκαὶ

    When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

  22. Matthew 2:18 καὶκαὶ

    “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

  23. Matthew 2:20 καὶκαὶ

    “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

  24. Matthew 2:21 καὶκαὶ

    So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to the land of Israel.

  25. Matthew 2:23 καὶ

    and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

  26. Matthew 3:2 καὶ

    and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

  27. Matthew 3:4 καὶκαὶ

    John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

  28. Matthew 3:5 καὶκαὶ

    People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.

  29. Matthew 3:6 καὶ

    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

  30. Matthew 3:7 καὶ

    But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

  31. Matthew 3:9 καὶ

    And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

  32. Matthew 3:10 καὶ

    The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  33. Matthew 3:11 καὶ

    I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

  34. Matthew 3:12 καὶκαὶ

    His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

  35. Matthew 3:14 καὶ

    But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

  36. Matthew 3:16 καὶκαὶκαὶ

    As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

  37. Matthew 3:17 καὶ

    And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

  38. Matthew 4:2 καὶκαὶ

    After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

  39. Matthew 4:3 Καὶ

    The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

  40. Matthew 4:5 καὶ

    Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.

  41. Matthew 4:6 καὶκαὶ

    “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

  42. Matthew 4:8 καὶκαὶ

    Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

  43. Matthew 4:9 καὶ

    “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

  44. Matthew 4:10 καὶ

    “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

  45. Matthew 4:11 καὶκαὶ

    Then the devil left Him, and angels came and ministered to Him.

  46. Matthew 4:13 καὶκαὶ

    Leaving Nazareth, He went and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

  47. Matthew 4:15 καὶ

    “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

  48. Matthew 4:16 καὶκαὶ

    the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

  49. Matthew 4:17 καὶ

    From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

  50. Matthew 4:18 καὶ

    As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

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