καὶ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 καὶ

   kai

   and
2. sentence🔊 καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ εἰς αὐτὴν πᾶν κοινὸν καὶ ποιῶν βδέλυγμα καὶ ψεῦδος εἰ μὴ οἱ γεγραμμένοι ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἀρνίου

   kai ou MÊ ei-SEL-thê eis au-TÊN PAN koi-NON kai poi-ÔN bDE-lyg-ma kai PSEU-dos ei MÊ hoi ge-graM-ME-noi en tôi bi-BLI-ôi tês zô-ÊS tou ar-NI-ou

   and not not may enter into it anything common or unclean and doing abomination and falsehood if not the ones having been written in the book of the life of the Lamb

Exegesis

The verse opens with the emphatic negation kai ou mē {καὶ οὐ μὴ | kaì ou mḕ}, combining the conjunction and doubled negative particles to exclude any possibility.

The neuter pan koinon {πᾶν κοινὸν | pân koinón} functions substantively as ‘anything unclean,’ while the participial clause poiōn bdelugma kai pseudos {ποιῶν βδέλυγμα καὶ ψεῦδος | poiṓn bdélygma kai pseûdos} parallels the neuter with a nominative masculine participle ‘anyone doing abomination or falsehood,’ highlighting habitual actors.

Root and etymology

kainos🔊 καινόςkappa–alpha–iota–nu–omicron–sigma

“new, fresh”