kaiō · burn, light

What it means

kaiō (καίω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “burn, light”.

Light; burn.

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. To kindle a lamp or fire; to be aflame.
2. To destroy something with fire.

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

How it is translated

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

• burning ×5
• burned ×3
• burns ×3
• Nor do they light ×1
• blazing ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×2
• John×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 5:15

  Nor do they light a lamp and put it under the basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 13:40

  So just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

• Luke 12:35

  Let your waists be girded and your lamps burning,

• Luke 24:32

  And they said to one another, “Was not our heart burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road, while he was opening to us the Scriptures?”

• John 5:35

  He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light.

• John 15:6

  If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like the branch and withers; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  And if I give away as food all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I will be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

• Hebrews 12:18

  For you have not drawn near to what can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and a storm,

• Revelation 4:5

  And from the throne come out lightnings and voices and thunders, and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God;

• Revelation 8:8

  And the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,

• Revelation 8:10

  And the third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a lamp, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of the waters.

• Revelation 19:20

  And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who performed the signs in its presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

• Revelation 21:8

  But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and detestable and murderers and the sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”