Greek verb · G2520
καθήκω
kathekokath-ay'-ko
to come down, come to.; to be fit, proper
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kathḗkō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2520is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2520
to reach to, i.e. (neuter of present active participle, figuratively as adjective) becoming
The King James renders it: convenient, fit.
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
katheko is rendered "to come down, come to.; to be fit, proper". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to come down, come to.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
Acts 22:22καθῆκεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to come down, come to., and to be fit, proper.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to come down, come to. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement… |
| to be fit, properimpers., with accusative and inf., Act.22:22 (on the tense, see Bl., § 63, 4); τὰ μὴ καθήκοντα, Rom.1:28.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| κάθημαι | kathemai | to sit | Uses91 |
| καθηγητής | kathegetes | teacher | Uses2 |
| καθημερινός | kathemerinos | daily | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- καθῆκεν1
- καθήκοντα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · neuter plural1V-PAP-APN
Acts
one use
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
- καθῆκενkathekenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it was proper
Romans
one use
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- καθήκονταkathekontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: being proper
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.