# κενός (kenos)

Strong’s G2756. 16 New Testament occurrences.

(a) empty, (b) met: empty (in moral content), vain, ineffective, foolish, worthless, (c) false, unreal, pretentious, hollow.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/kenos-g2756

## Occurrences

- [Mark 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/12/3) — And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
- [Luke 1:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/1/53) — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- [Luke 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/20/10) — And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away e…
- [Luke 20:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/20/11) — And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
- [Acts 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/4/25) — Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
- [1 Corinthians 15:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/15/10) — But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but…
- [1 Corinthians 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/15/14) — And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
- [1 Corinthians 15:58](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/15/58) — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in t…
- [2 Corinthians 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/6/1) — We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
- [Galatians 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/2/2) — And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by…
- [Ephesians 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/5/6) — Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- [Philippians 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/philippians/2/16) — Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
- [Colossians 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/colossians/2/8) — Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- [1 Thessalonians 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-thessalonians/2/1) — For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
- [1 Thessalonians 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-thessalonians/3/5) — For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
- [James 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/2/20) — But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?