demonstrative
kakeinos
Strong’sG2548
and he, she, it, and that
stem kakein-22 times in the New Testamentin 9 of 27 books5 of 26 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
κἀκεῖνος is a contraction of "and" with the demonstrative pronoun "that (one)," formed by combining the two words into one 1. It functions simply as "and he," "and she," "and it," or "and that (one)," and can also carry the sense "he/she/it also" or "that one too" 124. It is used to pick up a person or thing already mentioned in the sentence before it and add a further statement about that same person or thing 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
κἀκεῖνος, -είνη, -εῖνο
(by crasis for καὶ ἐκεῖνος, and so sometimes written, v.s. ἐκεῖνος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2548 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also κεῖνος (regular in Epic dialect, Ionic dialect (as Refs 5th c.BC+ only where the metre requires,Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; but not in Attic dialect Prose, and in Comedy texts only in mock Trag. passages): Aeolic dialect κῆνος Refs 7th c.BC+: Doric dialect τῆνος Refs 3rd c.BC+: in Comedy texts, strengthened ἐκεινοσί Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκεινοσίν Refs 2nd c.AD+: (ἐκεῖ):—demonstrative pronoun the person there, that person or thing, Refs 8th c.BC+: generally with reference to what has gone immediately before, Refs 5th c.BC+; but when οὗτος and ἐκεῖνος refer to two things before mentioned, ἐκεῖνος, properly belongs to the more remote, in time, place, or thought, οὗτος to the nearer, Refs 5th c.BC+ sometimes = the latter, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἆρ᾽ οὗτός ἐστ᾽ ἐκεῖνος ὅν..; Refs 5th c.BC+: also joined as if one pronoun, τοῦτ᾽ ἐκεῖνο..δέρκομαι Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ at that point of time, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, à propos, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 to denote wellknown persons, etc., κεῖνος μέγας θεός Refs 8th c.BC+
2.b ἐκεῖνα the ideal world, Refs
3 for things, of which one cannot remember or must not mention the name, ={ὁ δεῖνα}, so-and-so, Refs 5th c.BC+
3.b in formulae, τεθνάτω καὶ οἱ παῖδες οἱ ἐξ ἐκείνου Refs
4 with simple demonstrative force, Ἶρος ἐκεῖνος ἧσται Irus sits there, Refs 8th c.BC+; νῆες ἐκεῖναι ἐπιπλέουσιν there are ships sailing up, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 in indirect speech where properly the reflexive pronoun αὑτοῦ would stand, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 after a Relat. in apodosi almost pleonastic, Refs 5th c.BC+
7 in Aeolic dialect and Attic dialect the substantive with ἐκεῖνος properly has the Article (κῆνος ὤνηρ Refs 7th c.BC+ may precede or follow the substantive, ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν στρατείαν ἐ., τὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἐ., Refs 8th c.BC+; but when this is the case in Prose, ἐκεῖνος follows the substantive, ἡμέρας ἐκείνης Refs 5th c.BC+
II adverb ἐκείνως in that case, Refs; in that way, Refs 5th c.BC+: Ionic dialect κείνως Refs 5th c.BC+
III dative feminine ἐκείνῃ as adverb,
III.1 of Place, at that place, in that neighbourhood, Refs 5th c.BC+; κείνῃ (i.e. ὁδῷ) Refs 8th c.BC+
III.2 of Manner, in that manner, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV with Preps., ἐξ ἐκείνου from that time, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνα in that region, Refs 5th c.BC+afterwards, Refs 5th c.BC+; compare ἐπέκεινα.
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.
2 rarer renderings are not shown; every occurrence below carries the English it was given there.
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kakeinos7×κἀκεῖνος | kakeinas | kakeinem | kakeinois7×κἀκεῖνοι | kakeinais | kakeineim4×κἀκεῖνα |
| object accusative | kakeinon3×κἀκεῖνον | kakeinan | kakeinoin1×κἀκείνους | kakeinain | ||
| direct address vocative | kakeinor | kakeinar | kakeinoir | kakeinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | kakeinou | kakeinau | kakeineu | kakeinoiu | kakeinaiu | kakeineiu |
| to, for dative | kakeino | kakeina | kakeine | kakeinoi | kakeinai | kakeinei |
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
kakein 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.
22 occurrences, every one of them listed
kakeinos“and he”subjectnominative singular7×
Luke 11:7“and he”kakeinos esōthen apokrinirantos legateia; Mē mi kopoin …… answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door …
Luke 22:12kakeinos vi deikati anagaiem megem strōnnuorēntem; ekei …And he will show you a large upper …
John 6:57“he also”… ton patron, kai tos trōgarōntos min kakeinos zōati dia min.… because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 7:29… oidamē auton, hoti para autou amō kakeinos min apostelata.… Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
John 14:12… min teim ergeim heim mis poiamō kakeinos poiati, kai megotereim houteiu poiati, hoti …… you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am …
Acts 5:37… apografau kai apostēata laon opisō autou; kakeinos apoleta kai pantois hosois peithole auto …… and drew away people after him. He too perished, and all his followers were …
2 Timothy 2:12“he also”ei hupomenanō, kai sumbasilani; ei arneni, kakeinos arneti nin;if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
kakeinon“him”objectaccusative singular3×
Mark 12:4… palin apostelata pros autoin alloson doulon; kakeinon kefaliala kai atimazala.… them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him …
Mark 12:5“and that one”kai alloson apostelata; kakeinon apoktenala, kai polloin allosoin, hoin men …He sent still another, and this one they killed. He sent many others; some they beat and others they …
Luke 20:11“that one also”… prostitheta heteron pempara doulon; tois de kakeinon derarantois kai atimazarantois exapostelala kenon.So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.
kakeinois“they”subjectnominative plural7×
Mark 16:11kakeinois akouarantois hoti zōatō kai theasita hupo …And when they heard that Jesus was alive and …
Mark 16:13kakeinois apercharantois apangelala toi loipoi; oude ekeinoi …And they went back and reported it to …
John 17:24“they also”… mi, thelamō hina hopou amō mis kakeinois aleiō meta mu, hina theōraleiō tan …… have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You …
Acts 15:11… Iēsu pisteuanō sōzira kata hon tropon kakeinois.… that we are saved, just as they are.”
Romans 11:23“they also”kakeinois de, ean mē epimenaleiō ta apistia, …And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will …
1 Corinthians 10:6… mē arō nin epithumētoin kakoseiu, kathōs kakeinois epithumala.… us from craving evil things as they did.
Hebrews 4:2kai gar anō euangelizorēntois kathaper kakeinois, alla ouk ōfelata tos logos tau …… heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the …
kakeinoin“them”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 18:19“them”katantala de eis Efesan, kakeinoin kataleipata autou, autos de eisercharantos eis …… they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue there and reasoned …
kakeineim“others”subject or objectdirect plural4×
Matthew 15:18“and this”… teu stomeu ek tau kardiau exerchotō, kakeineim koinatō ton anthrōpon.… out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
Matthew 23:23“others”… kai tan pistian; houteim date poiara kakeineim mē afiēkarō.… mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
Luke 11:42“others”… tou theou; houteim de date poiara kakeineim mē pariēkara.… every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
John 10:16“them also”… ouk atō ek tau aulau houtau; kakeineim datō min agara, kai tau fōnau …… sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.