Adjective kenos (empty, vain) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV)


Mark

12: 3But they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty (kenos)-handed.

Luke

1: 53he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty (kenos).
20: 10When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him and sent him away empty (kenos)-handed.
20: 11Next he sent another slave; that one also they beat and insulted and sent away empty (kenos)-handed.

Acts

4: 25it is you who said by the Holy Spirit through our ancestor David, your servant: 'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain (kenos) things?