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Summary
- No person in the Bible is named Kai, and the name has no Hebrew origin or meaning.
- The Greek word kai means “and,” “also” or “even”; it is the second most common word in the New Testament, used about 9,000 times.
- The northern European name Kai may be a Frisian short form of Gerhard, Nicolaas, Cornelis or Gaius; Gaius, Cornelius and Nicolaus are New Testament names.
- Other sources of the name include Hawaiian kai, “sea,” Chinese 凯, “triumph,” an Estonian girls’ name from Katherine, and Japanese 海, “sea.”
- In Russian, Kai is also a form of Gaius, and the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Kai, bishop of Rome from 283 to 296, on 11 August.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Behind the Name, “Kai” (entries 1 to 4), “Kaj,” “Kay” (2) and “Gaius,” with United States popularity figures from Social Security Administration data. https://www.behindthename.com/name/kai
- “Kai (name),” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_(name)
- “The Snow Queen,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen
- Vocabulary Frequency List, from Warren C. Trenchard, Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament, Biblical Greek. https://biblicalgreek.org/grammar/vocabulary-frequency-list/
- Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (2010), in the MorphGNT tagged text; word and verse counts made from this text. https://github.com/morphgnt/sblgnt
- John Chapman, “Caius and Soter, Saints and Popes,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 3 (1908). https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144c.htm
- “Кай святой,” Православная богословская энциклопедия (Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia), ed. A. P. Lopukhin, vol. 7, Azbyka.ru. https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Lopuhin/pravoslavnaja-bogoslovskaja-entsiklopedija-ili-bogoslovskij-entsiklopedicheskij-slovar-tom-7-ioann-skifopolskij-kalendar/297
- Scripture quotations from the English Standard Version: John 1:1, 5; 14:6; Matthew 28:19. References: Romans 16:23; 3 John 1; Acts 6:5; Acts 10.
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