Greek verb · G2657
κατανοέω
katanoeokat-an-o-eh'-o
to observe
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: katanoéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2657is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2657
to observe fully
The King James renders it: behold, consider, discover, perceive.
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
katanoeo is rendered "to observe". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:3Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Matthew 7:3κατανοεῖς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do consider2
- notice2
- do carefully consider1
- having perceived1
- he considered1
- he has viewed1
- I was observing1
- looking1
- they were noticing1
- to behold1
- to look1
- we may think1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| καταβαίνω | katabaino | to come/go down | Uses81 |
| καταργέω | katargeo | to abate | Uses27 |
| καταλείπω | kataleipo | to leave behind | Uses23 |
| καταλύω | katalyo | to destroy/lodge | Uses17 |
| καταγγέλλω | katangello | to proclaim | Uses17 |
| κατακρίνω | katakrino | to condemn | Uses15 |
| καταντάω | katantao | to come to | Uses13 |
| καταρτίζω | katartizo | to complete | Uses13 |
| καταισχύνω | kataischyno | to dishonor | Uses13 |
| καταλαμβάνω | katalambano | to grasp | Uses13 |
| κατακαίω | katakaio | to burn | Uses12 |
| κατάκειμαι | katakeimai | to recline | Uses12 |
and 102 more on the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- κατανοήσατε3
- κατανοεῖς2
- κατανοῆσαι2
- κατενόησεν2
- κατενόουν2
- κατανοήσας1
- κατανοοῦντι1
- κατανοῶμεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural3V-AAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular2V-PAI-2S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-IAI-1S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-PAP-DSM
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-PAS-1P
Matthew
one use
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- κατανοεῖςkatanoeisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: notice
Luke
four uses
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- κατανοεῖςkatanoeisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: notice
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- κατανοήσατεkatanoesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do consider
Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
- κατανοήσατεkatanoesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do consider
But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,
- κατανοήσαςkatanoesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having perceived
Acts
four uses
When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:
- κατανοῆσαιkatanoesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to behold
‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
- κατανοῆσαιkatanoesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to look
I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
- κατενόουνkatenoounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was observing
When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
- κατενόουνkatenoounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were noticing
Romans
one use
Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
- κατενόησενkatenoesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he considered
Hebrews
two uses
Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
- κατανοήσατεkatanoesateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do carefully consider
And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
- κατανοῶμενkatanoomenverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may think
James
two uses
For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,
- κατανοοῦντιkatanoountiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: looking
and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
- κατενόησενkatenoesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he has viewed
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.