Strong's Greek · G2540

καιρός

kairós

X always, opportunity, (convenient, due) season, (due, short, while) time, a while

Definition

an occasion, i.e. set or proper time

Derivation

of uncertain affinity;

Appears 85 times in Scripture

Mark 1:15

“The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”

Matthew 16:3

and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.

Mark 10:30

will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

Matthew 12:1

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.

Matthew 26:18

He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”

Matthew 14:1

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus

Matthew 21:34

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

Matthew 24:45

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Matthew 21:41

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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