The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκένωσις“emptying”
- English todaykenosis
From Ancient Greek κένωσις (kénōsis, “emptying”) (see keno- and κενό (kenó)), from κενόειν (kenóein, “to empty”) (with reference to Philippians 2.vii, "But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are" – New Jerusalem Version).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.