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kainos καινός kainos

NEW in KIND — of a sort that was not there before, fresh as against worn out; distinct from neos, which is new in TIME (young, recent, the latest one). ⚠ Revelation uses kainos NINE times and neos ZERO times, in a book of 405 verses and in a New Testament where neos turns up twenty-seven times elsewhere: a new song (5:9, 14:3), a new name (2:17, 3:12), the new Jerusalem (3:12, 21:2), a new heaven and a new earth (21:1), and 'I am making all things kaina' (21:5). The claim is not a later world but a different kind of one. English and Spanish each have one word and cannot show it. → first discussed at Rev 21:1