Greek verb · G2508
καθαίρω
kathairokath-ah'-ee-ro
to prune
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kathaírō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2508is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2508
to cleanse, i.e. (specially) to prune; figuratively, to expiate
The King James renders it: purge.
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
kathairo is rendered "to prune". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
The first use
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
John 15:2καθαίρει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- He prunes1
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 |
| καθαιρέω | kathaireo | to take down | Uses8 |
| καθαρισμός | katharismos | cleansing | Uses7 |
| καθαίρεσις | kathairesis | destruction | Uses3 |
| καθά | katha | as/just as | Uses1 |
| καθάπτω | kathapto | to attach | Uses1 |
| καθαρότης | katharotes | cleanness | Uses1 |
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- καθαίρει1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
John
one use
He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- καθαίρειkathaireiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He prunes
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.