καλός

kalós · Greek · Strong's G2570 · 100 occurrences

The KJV renders 15 different Hebrew and Greek words as “well”

How the KJV renders it

x better, fair, good, honest, meet, well, worthy

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“well”

also renders agathós (G18), kalōs (G2573), pēgḗ (G4077), epiginṓskō (G1921), phréar (G5421), eû (G2095), bôwr (H953), ṭôwb (H2896), yâpheh (H3303), kên (H3651), kên (H3653), mᵉʼôd (H3966), maʻyân (H4599), mâqôwr (H4726)

“good”

also renders chrēstótēs (G5544), chrēstós (G5543), hikanós (G2425), kalōs (G2573), bíos (G979), eû (G2095), ʼîysh (H376), bâsar (H1319), châçîyd (H2623), ṭâb (H2869), mᵉʼôd (H3966), ʻôwd (H5750), rᵉkûwsh (H7399)

“meet”

also renders áxios (G514), hikanós (G2425), apántēsis (G529), synantáō (G4876), eúthetos (G2111), apantáō (G528), hypantáō (G5221), díkaios (G1342), bên (H1121), yôsher (H3476), mâtsâʼ (H4672), qâdam (H6923), qârâh (H7136)

“fair”

also renders asteîos (G791), ṭâhôwr (H2889), ṭûwb (H2898), ʻizzâbôwn (H5801), shappîyr (H8209), tiphʼârâh (H8597)

“worthy”

also renders hikanós (G2425), cháris (G5485), ʼaddîyr (H117), ʼîysh (H376), bên (H1121), chayil (H2428)

“honest”

also renders semnós (G4586)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

100 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Corinthians 5:6 · A-NSN

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 7:1 · A-NSN

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:8 · A-NSN

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

1 Corinthians 7:26 · A-ASN

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

1 Corinthians 9:15 · A-NSN

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

1 Peter 2:12 · A-ASF

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 4:10 A-NPM1 Thessalonians 5:21 A-ASN1 Timothy 1:8 A-NSM1 Timothy 1:18 A-ASF1 Timothy 2:3 A-NSN1 Timothy 3:1 A-GSN1 Timothy 3:7 A-ASF1 Timothy 3:13 A-ASM1 Timothy 4:4 A-NSN1 Timothy 4:6 A-GSF1 Timothy 5:10 A-DPN1 Timothy 5:25 A-NPN1 Timothy 6:12 A-ASF1 Timothy 6:13 A-ASF1 Timothy 6:18 A-DPN1 Timothy 6:19 A-ASM2 Corinthians 8:21 A-APN2 Corinthians 13:7 A-ASN2 Timothy 1:14 A-ASF2 Timothy 2:3 A-NSM2 Timothy 4:7 A-ASMActs 27:8 A-APMGalatians 4:18 A-DSNGalatians 6:9 A-ASNHebrews 5:14 A-GSNHebrews 6:5 A-ASNHebrews 10:24 A-GPNHebrews 13:9 A-NSNHebrews 13:18 A-ASFJames 2:7 A-ASNJames 3:13 A-GSFJames 4:17 A-ASMJohn 2:10 A-ASMJohn 10:11 A-NSMJohn 10:14 A-NSMJohn 10:32 A-APNJohn 10:33 A-GSNLuke 3:9 A-ASMLuke 6:38 A-ASNLuke 6:43 A-ASMLuke 8:15 A-DSFLuke 9:33 A-NSNLuke 14:34 A-NSNLuke 21:5 A-DPMMatthew 3:10 A-ASMMatthew 5:16 A-APNMatthew 7:17 A-APMMatthew 7:18 A-APMMatthew 7:19 A-ASMMatthew 12:33 A-ASMMatthew 13:8 A-ASFMatthew 13:23 A-ASFMatthew 13:24 A-ASNMatthew 13:27 A-ASN

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