καίτοι
kaítoi · G2543 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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although, even though, and yet
A marker of concession, with the probable implication of an additional component of contrast
ExamplesActs 14:17 yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “AS I SWORE IN MY ANGER, THEY CERTAINLY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,” although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- ὅμως hómōs · G3676 · although, though, similarly
- ὅμως is a close synonym expressing concessive contrast ('nevertheless, yet'), functioning similarly to καίτοι in marking an unexpected continuation despite what precedes
- πλήν plḗn · G4133 · but, nevertheless, except
- πλήν functions as a concessive particle ('nevertheless, however') marking adversative or exceptive contrast, overlapping semantically with καίτοι's concessive use
- μέντοι méntoi · G3305 · but, nevertheless, except
- μέντοι serves as a concessive-adversative particle ('nevertheless, however') expressing contrast or qualification similar to καίτοι
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Although, even though, and yet89.72
- In Acts 14:17, Paul and Barnabas tell the crowd at Lystra that God “did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons,” using this word to introduce a statement that qualifies what came before.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from καί and τοι), conjunction, with a participle (but in classical Greek with a finite…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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