Limitless Word
κενόςkenós
GreekG275618 occurrences (KJV)

empty (literally or figuratively)

KJV renders it: empty, (in) vain

Where it appears(showing the first 16 of 18)

  • Mark 12:3They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
  • Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
  • Luke 20:10At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
  • Luke 20:11He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
  • Acts 4:25who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
  • 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 1 Cor 15:14If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
  • 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Gal 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
  • Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
  • Phil 2:16holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
  • Col 2:8Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
  • 1 Th 2:1For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,
  • 1 Th 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • Jas 2:20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.