conjunction
kaiper
Strong’sG2539
although
stem kaiper-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 booksnever changes form
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.
καίπερ,
concessive particle,[in LXX: Pr 6:8, Wi 11:9, Jh 1:13, II-IV Mac11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2539 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkah'-ee-per
and indeed, i.e. nevertheless or notwithstanding
Fromfrom G2532 and G4007;
King Jamesand yet, although.
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
in Refs 8th c.BC+ always with a word between (except καί περ πολλὰ παθόντα Refs 8th c.BC+; but one word in Refs 5th c.BC+
I even, καὶ αὐτοί περ πονεώμεθα Refs 8th c.BC+
II although, albeit, usually with participle, καὶ αὐτῇ περ νοεούσῃ Refs 8th c.BC+: so in later Poets, κ. ἀχνύμενος Refs 5th c.BC+participle must frequently be supplied, καὶ θεός περ [ὤν] Refs 4th c.BC+; γιγνώσκω σαφῶς, κ. σκοτεινὸς [ὤν], τήν γε σὴν αὐδὴν ὅμως Refs 5th c.BC+; also εἰ μέμονάς γε, καὶ ὀψέ περ [ἐρυόμενος],.. ἐρύεσθαι Refs 8th c.BC+; λέγεις ἀληθῆ, κ. ἐκ μακροῦ Χρόνου [λέγων] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀλλ᾽ ἔστιν ὧν δεῖ, κ. οὐ πολλῶν ἄπο, ={καίπερ οὐ πολλῶν ὄντων}, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. (to be read καίτοι) ἐκεῖνό γε ᾤμην τι εἶναι 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
kaiper5×
Philippians 3:4kaiper mis echarōntos pepoithēsian kai en sarka. …though I myself could have such confidence …
Hebrews 5:8kaiper arōntos huios, mathata apo heiu paschata …Although He was a Son, He learned …
Hebrews 7:5… nomon, houtem atō toin adelfoin autoiu, kaiper exercharēntoin ek tau osfuau Abraam;… people — that is, from their brothers — though they too are descended from Abraham.
Hebrews 12:17… apodokimazita, metanoiau gar topon ouk heuriskata, kaiper meta dakrueiu ekzētarantos autan.… could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.
2 Peter 1:12… mellami aei vin hupomimnēskarō peri houteiu, kaiper horarēntoin kai stērizorēntoin en ta pareiarōnta …… remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established …