Kainotes means “newness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2538 — chamul (“Hamul”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2538 καινότης (kainotes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kainotes (kai-not'-ace) n. 1. renewal (figuratively) [from G2537] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include newness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
kainotes (kai-not'-ace) n. 1. renewal (figuratively) [from G2537] KJV: newness Root(s): G2537
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2538. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
newness
Usage: καινότης, -ητος, ἡ (καινός), [in LXX: 3Ki.8:53, Eze.47:12 * ;] __1. novelty (Thuc., Isocr., LS, see word). __2. freshness, newness: ἐν κ. ζωῆς (see Lft., Notes, 296), Rom.6:4; ἐν κ. πνεύματος, Rom.7:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kainotes, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2538 (καινότης) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God. He manifested the sun in the heaven: The Lord said he would dwell in darkness: Build thou my house, a beautiful house For thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, even on the bank of it on this side and on that side: they shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail: they shall bring forth the firstfruit of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary: and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2538.
Because thou hast set them apart for an inheritance to thyself out of all the nations of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of thy servant Moses, when thou broughtest our fathers out of the land of Egypt, O Lord God. He manifested the sun in the heaven: The Lord said he would dwell in darkness: Build thou my house, a beautiful house For thyself to dwell in anew. Behold, is not this written in the book of the song?
And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, even on the bank of it on this side and on that side: they shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail: they shall bring forth the firstfruit of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary: and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2538, grouped by book.
Kainotes (Strong's G2538) is a Greek word most simply glossed "newness". kainotes (kai-not'-ace) n. 1. renewal (figuratively) [from G2537]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G2538 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2538 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as newness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2538, with linked reader references where each row is available.