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Strong’s G2756 · Greek

κενός

kenós · ken-os'

Origin apparently a primary word;

Meaning empty (literally or figuratively)

In the King James Version empty, (in) vain.

In 16 verses of the King James Version

  1. Mark 12:3And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
  2. Luke 1:53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
  3. Luke 20:10And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
  4. Luke 20:11And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
  5. Acts 4:25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
  6. 1 Corinthians 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  7. 1 Corinthians 15:14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
  8. 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
  9. 2 Corinthians 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
  10. Galatians 2:2And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
  11. Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
  12. Philippians 2:16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
  13. Colossians 2:8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
  14. 1 Thessalonians 2:1For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
  15. 1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
  16. James 2:20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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