καίω kaiō

Greek word for “to kindle/burn” · Strong’s G2545 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

καίω; 1. to kindle, light: with accusative, λύχνον;

How it is translated

Glosses given for kaiō in context, with how often each is used:

• burning 8
• do they light 1
• burned 1
• kindled 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 8 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Luke 12 (1), Luke 24 (1), John 5 (1), John 15 (1), Hebrews 12 (1), Revelation 4 (1), Revelation 19 (1), Revelation 21 (1)

Forms

• καιόμενος 2
• καίουσιν 1
• καιόμενοι 1
• καιομένη 1
• καίεται 1
• κεκαυμένῳ 1
• καιόμεναι 1
• καιόμενον 1
• καιομένης 1
• καιομένῃ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kaiō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• πῦρ pur “fire” 6
• λύχνος luchnos “lamp” 3
• θεῖον theion “sulfur” 2
• λαμπάς lampas “window” 2
• λίμνη limnē “lake” 2
• σαλπίζω salpizō “to sound a trumpet” 2
• βάλλω ballō “to throw” 3
• ὡς hōs “as/when” 4
• δεύτερος deuteros “secondly” 2
• τρίτος tritos “third” 2
• ἐνώπιον enōpion “before” 2
• ἄγγελος angelos “angel” 2

Key verses

The verses using kaiō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 5:15 — Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
• Luke 12:35 — Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
• Luke 24:32 — And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
• John 5:35 — He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
• John 15:6 — If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
• Hebrews 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
• Revelation 4:5 — And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven…
• Revelation 8:8 — And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
• Revelation 8:10 — And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the…
• Revelation 19:20 — And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,…
• Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.