Greek verb · G2507
καθαιρέω
kathaireokath-ahee-reh'-o
to take down; to put down by force, pull down, destroy
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kathairéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2507is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2507
to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kathaireo is rendered "to take down; to put down by force, pull down, destroy". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to take down".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 15:36And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”
Mark 15:36καθελεῖν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to take down, and to put down by force, pull down, destroy.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to take downwith accusative of person(s) (the technical term for removal after crucifixion, Field, Notes, 44), Mrk.15:36, 46, Luk.23:53, Act.13:29. | Tagged as
| WhereMark 15:36And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine… |
| to put down by force, pull down, destroyἀποθήκας, Luk.12:18 (opposite to οἰκοδομεῖν); δυνάστας, Luk.1:52; ἔθνη, Act.13:19; pass., Act.19:27 (diminished, Field, Notes, 129 f.);... | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καθαρίζω | katharizo | to clean | Uses31 |
| καθαρός | katharos | clean | Uses27 |
| καθάπερ | kathaper | just as | Uses13 |
| καθαρισμός | katharismos | cleansing | Uses7 |
| καθαίρεσις | kathairesis | destruction | Uses3 |
| καθά | katha | as/just as | Uses1 |
| καθαίρω | kathairo | to prune | Uses1 |
| καθάπτω | kathapto | to attach | Uses1 |
| καθαρότης | katharotes | cleanness | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- καθελὼν3
- καθαιρεῖσθαι1
- καθεῖλεν1
- καθελεῖν1
- καθελόντες1
- καθελῶ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-2AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-2AAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-2AAP-NPM
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-2FAI-1S
- verb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PPN
Mark
two uses
And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”
- καθελεῖνkatheleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to take down
So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
- καθελὼνkathelonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having taken down
Luke
three uses
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
- καθεῖλενkatheilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has brought down
Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
- καθελῶkatheloverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will tear down
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
- καθελὼνkathelonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having taken down
Acts
three uses
And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
- καθελὼνkathelonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having destroyed
When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
- καθελόντεςkathelontesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having taken down
There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”
- καθαιρεῖσθαιkathaireisthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: deposing
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.