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Motion

κίνησιςStrong’s G2796

kinēsis

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Kinēsis is the Greek word usually translated “motion”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.”
John 5:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “motion”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • motion 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • John 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    κίνησις kinēsis · motion

    κίνησις, -εως, ἡ (κινέω), [in LXX: Job.16:6 (5), (נִיד), al. ;] a moving: Jhn.5:3.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “motion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MO'TION, noun

    [Latin motio. See Move.]

    The act or process of changing place; change of local position; the passing of a body from one place to another; change of distance between bodies; opposed to rest.

    1. Animal life and action.
    2. Manner of moving the body; port; gait; air.
    3. Change of posture; action.
    4. Military march or movement.
    All definitions and other forms of “motion”
    1. Agitation; as the motions of the sea.
    2. Internal action; excitement; as the motions of the breast.
    3. Direction; tendency.
    4. The effect of impulse; action proceeding from any cause, external or internal.
    5. Proposal made; proposition offered; particularly, a proposition made in a deliberative assembly.
    6. A puppet-show or puppet. [Not used.]

    MO'TION, verb transitive

    To propose. [Little used. See Move.]

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.