Dictionary entry

καί

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament with Strong's

καί,

conj.,

and.

I. Copulative.

1. Connecting single words;

(a) in general: Mt 2:1816:1, 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 7:129:4, al.;

(b) connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

(c) joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:3326:59, Mk 16:17, Ac 5:29, al.

2. Connecting clauses and sentences: Mt 3:12, Ac 5:21, al. mult.; esp.

(a) where, after the simplicity of the popular language, sentences are paratactically joined (WM, § 60, 3; M, Pr., 12; Deiss., LAE, 128 ff.): Mt 1:217:25, Mk 9:5, Jo 10:3, al.;

(b) joining affirmative to negative sentences: Lk 3:14, Jo 4:11, III Jo 10;

(c) consecutive, and so: Mt 5:1523:32, He 3:19, al.; after imperatives, Mt 4:19, Lk 7:7, al.;

(d) = καίτοι, and yet: Mt 3:146:26, Mk 12:12, Lk 18:7 (Field, Notes, 72), I Co 5:2, al.;

(e) beginning an apodosis (= Heb. וְ; so sometimes δέ in cl.), then: Lk 2:217:12, Ac 1:10; beginning a question (WM, § 53, 3a): Mk 10:26, Lk 10:29, Jo 9:36.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. καὶ... καί, both... and (for τε... καί, v.s. τε);

(a) connecting single words: Mt 10:28, Mk 4:41, Ro 11:33, al.;

(b) clauses and sentences: Mk 9:13, Jo 7:28, I Co 1:22, al.

II. 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.