noun · feminine
kainotas
Strong’sG2538
freshness, newness
stem kainot-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
καινότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< καινός), [in LXX: III Ki 8:53, Ez 47:12*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2538 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkahee-not'-ace
renewal (figuratively)
Fromfrom G2537;
King Jamesnewness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
newness, freshness, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 novelty, λόγου Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐν τοῖς σχηματισμοῖς κ. Refs 1st c.BC+ novelties, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kainotas | kainotais |
| object accusative | kainotan | kainotain |
| direct address vocative | kainotar | kainotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kainotau | kainotaiu |
| to, for dative | kainota2×καινότητι | kainotai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kainota is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kainota“newness”to, fordative singular2×
Romans 6:4… tou patrou, houtōs kai nis en kainota zōau peripataneia.… Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
Romans 7:6“newness”… ho katechone, hōste douleuarō nin en kainota pneumeu kai ouk palaiota grammeu.… died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of …