Klesis means “calling” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2821 — chashak (“darken”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2821 κλῆσις (klesis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. klesis (klay`-sis) n. 1. a calling 2. (specially) a divine calling It has 14 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include calling and called. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
klesis (klay`-sis) n. 1. a calling 2. (specially) a divine calling 3. (figuratively) an invitation 4. (by extension) a name [from a shorter form of G2564] KJV: calling Root(s): G2564 See also: G2822, G1577
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2821. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
calling
Usage: κλῆσις, -εως, ἡ (καλέω) [in LXX: Jer.31:6 (קָרָא), Jdth.12:10 A, 3Ma.5:14 * ;] a calling, call; in NT, always of the Divine call to salvation: Rom.11:29, 1Co.1:26 7:20, Eph.1:18 4:1, 4, Php.3:14, 2Th.1:11, 2Ti.1:9, Heb.3:1, 2Pe.1:10 (Cremer, 332).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render klesis, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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 G2821 (κλῆσις) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.
The middle of the tenth hour had well nigh arrived, when the master bidder, seeing the guests who were bidden collected, came and shook the king.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2821.
For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.
The middle of the tenth hour had well nigh arrived, when the master bidder, seeing the guests who were bidden collected, came and shook the king.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2821, grouped by book.
Klesis (Strong's G2821) is a Greek word most simply glossed "calling". klesis (klay`-sis) n. 1. a calling 2. (specially) a divine calling
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G2821 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2821 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as calling and called. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2821, with linked reader references where each row is available.