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Greek verb · G2673

καταργέω

katargeokat-arg-eh'-o

to abate

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

Concordance spelling: katargéō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2673is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2673

to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively

The King James renders it: abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void.

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

katargeo is rendered "to abate". It stands 27 times in the Greek text, across nine books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 13:7So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

Luke 13:7καταργεῖ;¶

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

Where the word stands

Nine of the word's twenty-seven uses are in 1 Corinthians.

The other 18 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

  • are coming to naught1
  • do we nullify1
  • fading away1
  • has been abolished1
  • has been nullified1
  • having abolished1
  • having annulled1
  • He may annul1
  • He may destroy1
  • He may have annulled1
  • I have done away with1
  • is being removed1

and 15 more, 27 uses in all

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.

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
κατάπαυσιςkatapausisrestUses9

and 86 more on the stem.

All 27, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • καταργήσει3
  • καταργήσῃ3
  • κατήργηται3
  • καταργεῖται2
  • καταργηθήσεται2
  • καταργεῖ;¶1
  • καταργηθῇ1
  • καταργηθήσονται1
  • καταργῆσαι1
  • καταργήσαντος1
  • καταργήσας1
  • καταργοῦμεν1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular3V-AAS-3S
  • verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-FAI-3S
  • verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-RPI-3S
  • verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-FPI-3S
  • verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-PPI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
  • verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1V-AAP-GSM
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person plural1V-API-1P
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-API-2P
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-APS-3S
  • verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FPI-3P

Luke

one use
  • So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

    Luke 13:7

    • καταργεῖ;¶katargeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: should it use up

Romans

six uses
  • What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?

    Romans 3:3

    • καταργήσειkatargeseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will nullify
  • Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

    Romans 3:31

    • καταργοῦμενkatargoumenverb · present active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: do we nullify
  • For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,

    Romans 4:14

    • κατήργηταιkatergetaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been nullified
  • We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

    Romans 6:6

    • καταργηθῇkatargetheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may be annulled
  • For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

    Romans 7:2

    • κατήργηταιkatergetaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she has been cleared
  • But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

    Romans 7:6

    • κατηργήθημενkatergethemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we have been released

1 Corinthians

nine uses
  • He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

    1 Corinthians 1:28

    • καταργήσῃkatargeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may annul
  • Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

    1 Corinthians 2:6

    • καταργουμένωνkatargoumenonverb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: are coming to naught
  • “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

    1 Corinthians 6:13

    • καταργήσειkatargeseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will destroy
  • Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

    1 Corinthians 13:8

    • καταργηθήσονταιkatargethesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will be abated
    • καταργηθήσεταιkatargethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it will be abated
  • but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

    1 Corinthians 13:10

    • καταργηθήσεταιkatargethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be done away
  • When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

    1 Corinthians 13:11

    • κατήργηκαkatergekaverb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have done away with
  • Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

    1 Corinthians 15:24

    • καταργήσῃkatargeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may have annulled
  • The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

    1 Corinthians 15:26

    • καταργεῖταιkatargeitaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: to be abolished

2 Corinthians

four uses
  • Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

    2 Corinthians 3:7

    • καταργουμένηνkatargoumenenverb · present passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: is fading
  • For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!

    2 Corinthians 3:11

    • καταργούμενονkatargoumenonverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: is fading away
  • We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

    2 Corinthians 3:13

    • καταργουμένουkatargoumenouverb · present passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fading away
  • But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

    2 Corinthians 3:14

    • καταργεῖταιkatargeitaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is being removed

Galatians

three uses
  • What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

    Galatians 3:17

    • καταργῆσαιkatargesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to nullify
  • You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

    Galatians 5:4

    • κατηργήθητεkatergetheteverb · aorist passive, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: You are severed
  • Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

    Galatians 5:11

    • κατήργηταιkatergetaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has been abolished

Ephesians

one use
  • by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

    Ephesians 2:15

    • καταργήσαςkatargesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having annulled

2 Thessalonians

one use
  • And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.

    2 Thessalonians 2:8

    • καταργήσειkatargeseiverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will annul

2 Timothy

one use
  • And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

    2 Timothy 1:10

    • καταργήσαντοςkatargesantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: having abolished

Hebrews

one use
  • Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

    Hebrews 2:14

    • καταργήσῃkatargeseverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may destroy

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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