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Greek verb · G2669

καταπονέω

kataponeokat-ap-on-eh'-o

to oppress

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: kataponéō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2669is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2669

to labor down, i.e. wear with toil (figuratively, harass)

The King James renders it: oppress, vex.

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

kataponeo is rendered "to oppress". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 7:24And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

Acts 7:24καταπονουμένῳ

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Acts.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • being distressed1
  • being oppressed1

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.

καταργέωkatargeoto abateUses27
καταλείπωkataleipoto leave behindUses23
καταλύωkatalyoto destroy/lodgeUses17
κατακρίνωkatakrinoto condemnUses15
κατανοέωkatanoeoto observeUses14
καταντάωkatantaoto come toUses13
καταρτίζωkatartizoto completeUses13
καταισχύνωkataischynoto dishonorUses13
καταλαμβάνωkatalambanoto graspUses13
κατακαίωkatakaioto burnUses12
κατάκειμαιkatakeimaito reclineUses12
κατασκευάζωkataskeuazoto prepareUses11

and 90 more on the stem.

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

  • καταπονούμενον1
  • καταπονουμένῳ1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PPP-ASM
  • verb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-PPP-DSM

Acts

one use
  • And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

    Acts 7:24

    • καταπονουμένῳkataponoumenoverb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: being oppressed

2 Peter

one use
  • and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

    2 Peter 2:7

    • καταπονούμενονkataponoumenonverb · present passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: being distressed

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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