kainos · new

What it means

kainos (καινός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “new”.

Different from what was before.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Of a kind that did not exist before; better than the old.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• new ×41
• fresh ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×5
• Luke×5
• John×2
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Galatians×1
• Ephesians×2
• Hebrews×3
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×2
• 2 John×1
• Revelation×9

• Matthew 9:17

  Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

• Matthew 13:52

  And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure new things and old.”

• Matthew 26:29

  But I tell you, I will never drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a large stone to the door of the tomb, he went away.

• Mark 1:27

  And they were all amazed, so that they questioned one another, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”

• Mark 2:21

  No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

• Mark 2:22

  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins; but new wine into new wineskins.”

• Mark 14:25

  Truly I tell you that I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

• Mark 16:17

  And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

• Luke 5:36

  And he was also telling a parable to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise, he will tear the new too, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

• Luke 5:38

  But new wine must be put into new wineskins.

• Luke 22:20

  And the cup likewise after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• John 13:34

  A new commandment I give you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

• John 19:41

  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

• Acts 17:19

  And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “Can we know what this new teaching is that is being spoken by you?

• Acts 17:21

  Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time in nothing else than telling something or hearing something new.

• 1 Corinthians 11:25

  In the same way he took also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

• 2 Corinthians 3:6

  who also made us sufficient to be servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

• 2 Corinthians 5:17

  So if anyone is in the Messiah, there is a new creation; the old things have passed away; look, new things have come.

• Galatians 6:15

  For neither circumcision is anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

• Ephesians 2:15

  having abolished the law of commandments in decrees, so that he might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace,

• Ephesians 4:24

  and put on the new man who has been created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

• Hebrews 8:8

  For finding fault with them, he says: Look, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant,

• Hebrews 8:13

  In speaking of a new one, he has made the first one old; and what is becoming old and growing aged is near to disappearing.

• Hebrews 9:15

  And for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

• 2 Peter 3:13

  But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

• 1 John 2:7

  Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you heard.

• 1 John 2:8

  Yet I am writing to you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

• 2 John 1:5

  And now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

• Revelation 2:17

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written that no one knows except the one who receives it.

• Revelation 3:12

  The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out again; and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

• Revelation 5:9

  And they sing a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered, and by your blood you bought for God people from every tribe and language and people and nation;

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 21:1

  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.

• Revelation 21:2

  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

• Revelation 21:5

  And the one who sits on the throne said, “Look, I am making all things new.” And he says, “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”

And 6 more times.