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Strong's G2532 · Greek

καί

kai · kahee

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

καί (G2532)

9018 καί , conj. , and . Copulative. Connecting single words; in general: Mt 2:18 16:1 , Mk 2:15 , Lk 8:15 , He 1:1 , al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23 , Lk 14:21 , Ro 7:12 9:4 , al.; connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20 , Ac 13:20 ; joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59 , Mk 16:17 , Ac 5:29 , al. Connecting clauses and sentences: Mt 3:12 , Ac 5:21 , al. mult.; esp. where, after the simplicity of the popular language, sentences are paratactically joined (WM, § 60, 3; M, Pr. , 12; Deiss., LAE , 128 ff.): Mt 1:21 7:25 , Mk 9:5 , Jo 10:3 , al.; joining affirmative to negative sentences: Lk 3:14 , Jo 4:11 , III Jo 10 ; consecutive, and so : Mt 5:15 23:32 , He 3:19 , al.; after imperatives, Mt 4:19 , Lk 7:7 , al.; = καίτοι , and yet : Mt 3:14 6:26 , Mk 12:12 , Lk 18:7 (Field, Notes , 72), I Co 5:2 , al.; beginning an apodosis (= Heb. וְ ; so sometimes δέ in cl.), then : Lk 2:21 7:12 , Ac 1:10 ; beginning a question (WM, § 53, 3a): Mk 10:26 , Lk 10:29 , Jo 9:36 . Epexegetic, and , and indeed , namely (WM, § 53, 3c): Lk 3:18 , Jo 1:16 , Ac 23:6 , Ro 1:5 , I Co 3:5 , al. In transition: Mt 4:23 , Mk 5:1 , 21 , Jo 1:19 , al.; so, Hebraistically, καὶ ἐγένετο ( וַיְהִי ; also ἐγένετο δέ ), Mk 1:9 (cf. Lk 5:1 ; V. Burton, §§ 357-60; M, Pr. , 14, 16). καὶ . . . καί , both . . . and (for τε . . . καί , v.s. τε ); connecting single words: Mt 10:28 , Mk 4:41 , Ro 11:33 , al.; clauses and sentences: Mk 9:13 , Jo 7:28 , I Co 1:22 , al. Adjunctive, also , even , still : Mt 5:39 , 40 , Mk 2:28 , al. mult.; esp. c. pron., adv., etc., Mt 20:4 , Jo 7:47 , al; ὡς κ. , Ac 11:17 ; καθὼς κ. , Ro 15:7 ; οὕτω κ. , Ro 6:11 ; διὸ κ. , Lk 1:35 ; ὁ κ. (Deiss., BS , 313ff.), Ac 13:9 ; pleonastically, μετὰ κ. . (Bl., §77, 7; Deiss., BS , 265 f,), Phl 4:3 ; τί κ. , 1 Co 15:29 ; ἀλλὰ κ. , Lk 14:22 , Jo 5:18 , al.; καίγε (M, Pr. , 230; Burton, § 437), Ac 17:27 ; καίπερ , He 5:8 ; κ. ἐάν , v.s. ἐάν .

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