Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2570

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: καλός

Transliteration: kal-os'

Definition: of uncertain affinity; properly, beautiful, but chiefly (figuratively) good (literally or morally), i.e. valuable or virtuous (for appearance or use, and thus distinguished from ἀγαθός, which is properly intrinsic)

KJV Definition: X better, fair, good(-ly), honest, meet, well, worthy

Verse usage

  • Marko 9:43 NASB
    "If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,
  • Marko 9:45 NASB
    "If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell,
  • Marko 9:47 NASB
    "If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell,
  • Marko 9:50 NASB
    "Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty [again]? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
  • Marko 14:21 NASB
    "For the Son of Man [is to] go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! [It would have been] good for that man if he had not been born."
  • Lukas 3:9 NASB
    "Indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
  • Lukas 6:38 NASB
    "Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure-- pressed down, shaken together, [and] running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."
  • Lukas 6:43 NASB
    "For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.
  • Lukas 8:15 NASB
    "But the [seed] in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.
  • Lukas 9:33 NASB
    And as these were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles: one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah "-- not realizing what he was saying.
  • Lukas 14:34 NASB
    "Therefore, salt is good; but if even salt has become tasteless, with what will it be seasoned?
  • Lukas 21:5 NASB
    And while some were talking about the temple, that it was adorned with beautiful stones and votive gifts, He said,
  • Huan 2:10 NASB
    and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first, and when [the people] have drunk freely, [then he serves] the poorer [wine]; [but] you have kept the good wine until now."
  • Huan 10:11 NASB
    "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
  • Huan 10:14 NASB
    "I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,
  • Huan 10:33 NASB
    The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out [to be] God."
  • Romanonan 7:16 NASB
    But if I do the very thing I do not want [to do], I agree with the Law, [confessing] that the Law is good.
  • Romanonan 7:18 NASB
    For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good [is] not.
  • Romanonan 7:21 NASB
    I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
  • Romanonan 12:17 NASB
    Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.