Greek verb · G2718
κατέρχομαι
katerchomaikat-er'-khom-ahee
to descend
16 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: katérchomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2718is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2718
to come (or go) down (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: come (down), depart, descend, go down, land.
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
katerchomai is rendered "to descend". It stands 16 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 4:31Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.
Luke 4:31κατῆλθεν
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
- came down3
- having gone down2
- coming down1
- descending1
- having come down1
- having landed1
- He went down1
- to come down1
- we came1
- we disembarked1
- went1
- went down1
and 1 more, 16 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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατεργάζομαι | katergazomai | to workout/produce | Uses22 |
| κατέχω | katecho | to hold back/fast | Uses17 |
| κατεσθίω | katesthio | to devour | Uses14 |
| κατέναντι | katenanti | before | Uses8 |
| κατευθύνω | kateuthyno | to guide | Uses3 |
| κατενώπιον | katenopion | before | Uses3 |
| κατεξουσιάζω | katexousiazo | to rule | Uses2 |
| κατείδωλος | kateidolos | idolatrous | Uses1 |
| κατεφίστημι | katephistemi | to attack | Uses1 |
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- κατῆλθον4
- κατελθὼν3
- κατελθεῖν2
- κατήλθομεν2
- κατελθόντες1
- κατελθόντων1
- κατερχομένη1
- κατῆλθεν1
- κατῆλθέν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural4V-2AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-2AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person plural2V-2AAI-1P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-2AAN
- verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1V-2AAP-GPM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-2AAP-NPM
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-PNP-NSF
Luke
two uses
Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.
- κατῆλθενkatelthenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He went down
The next day, when they came down from the mountain, Jesus was met by a large crowd.
- κατελθόντωνkatelthontonverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: when were descending
Acts
thirteen uses
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
- κατελθὼνkatelthonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having gone down
As Peter traveled throughout the area, he went to visit the saints in Lydda.
- κατελθεῖνkateltheinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: descending
In those days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
- κατῆλθονkatelthonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: came down
After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.
- κατελθὼνkatelthonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having gone down
So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
- κατῆλθονkatelthonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: went down
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
- κατελθόντεςkatelthontesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having come down
So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter.
- κατῆλθονkatelthonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: went
And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
- κατῆλθονkatelthonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: came down
When Paul had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem. Then he went down to Antioch.
- κατελθὼνkatelthonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having landed
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples
- κατελθεῖνkateltheinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to come down
After sighting Cyprus and passing south of it, we sailed on to Syria and landed at Tyre, where the ship was to unload its cargo.
- κατήλθομενkatelthomenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we disembarked
After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
- κατῆλθένkatelthenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: came down
And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
- κατήλθομενkatelthomenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we came
James
one use
Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
- κατερχομένηkaterchomeneverb · present middle or passive form, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: coming down
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.
