Word

κενόω

kenóō · G2758 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to cause to lose power, to cause to be emptied of power, to make powerless

To take away the power or significance of something

Examples
Romans 4:14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, then faith is made void and the promise is nullified;
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no effect.
1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things. And I have not written these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than that. No one shall make my boast an empty one!
to empty oneself, to divest oneself of position

To completely remove or eliminate elements of high status or rank by eliminating all privileges or prerogatives associated with such status or rank

Examples
Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

καύχημαboast, reason for boasting 1
οὐδείςno one 1
πίστιςfaith, trust, faithfulness 1
σταυρόςcross 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
καύχημαboast, reason for boasting 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin+ μέροςpart 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

μήnot 2

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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Semantic domains 2 entries

To cause to lose power, to cause to be emptied of power, to make powerless76.27: κενόω can describe stripping something of its effective force. 1 Corinthians 1:17 states that Paul was sent “to preach the gospel, not with cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made of no effect,” guarding against emptying the cross’s message of its power.
To empty oneself, to divest oneself of position87.70: The same verb can describe a voluntary self-emptying of rank or status. Philippians 2:7 describes Christ as one who “emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men,” setting aside His own standing to take on a lower position.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κενός kenós · G2756 · without anything, empty, empty-handed · 18×κενόωkenóō · G2758κενοφωνία kenophōnía · G2757 · foolish talk, empty talk · 2×κενοδοξία kenodoxía · G2754 · empty pride, cheap pride, vain pride · 1×κενόδοξος kenódoxos · G2755 · falsely proud · 1×κενῶς kenōs · G2761 · in vain, for no purpose · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κενῷ: (future κενώσω, 1 Cor 9:15 L text T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἐκενωσα; passive, perfect…

κενῷ: (future κενώσω, 1 Cor 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), Phm 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, Rom 4:14; 1 Cor 1:17.
3. to make void i. e. cause a thing to be seen to be empty, hollow, false: τό καύχημα, 1 Cor 9:15; passive 2 Cor 9:3. (Twice in the Sept. viz. Jer 14:2; Jer 15:9; often in Attic writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Power, Force4 occurrences Low Status or Rank [including persons of low status]1 occurrence

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