Lexicon kenoó: to empty Original Word: κενόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kenoó Phonetic Spelling: (ken-o'-o) Short Definition: I empty, deprive of content, make unreal Definition: (a) I empty, (b) I deprive of content, make unreal. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2758 kenóō – properly, to empty out, render void; (passive) be emptied – hence, without recognition, perceived as valueless (Phil 2:7). See 2756 (kenos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kenosDefinitionto empty NASB Translationemptied (1), made empty (1), made void (2), make...empty (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2758: κενόωκενόω, κενῷ: (future κενώσω, 1 Corinthians 9:15 L text T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐκενωσα; passive, perfect κεκνωμαι; 1 aorist ἐκενωθην; 1. to empty, make empty: ἑαυτόν ἐκένωσε, namely, τοῦ εἶναι ἴσα Θεῷ or τῆς μορφῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ, i. e. he laid aside equality with or the form of God (said of Christ), Philippians 2:7 (see a fuller exposition of this passage in 2. to make void i. e. deprive of force, render vain, useless, of no effect: passive, Romans 4:14; 1 Corinthians 1:17. 3. to make void i. e. cause a thing to be seen to be empty, hollow, false: τό καύχημα, 1 Corinthians 9:15; passive 2 Corinthians 9:3. (Twice in the Sept. viz. Jeremiah 14:2; Jeremiah 15:9; often in Attic writings.)
Strong's empty, make void, be in vain. From kenos; to make empty, i.e. (figuratively) to abase, neutralize, falsify -- make (of none effect, of no reputation, void), be in vain. see GREEK kenos |
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