Greek preposition · G2736
G2736
down, downwards (with verbs of motion); below, beneath
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2736is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2736
downwards
The King James renders it: beneath, bottom, down, under.
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
G2736 is rendered "down, downwards (with verbs of motion); below, beneath". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "down, downwards (with verbs of motion)".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:6“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
The first use
“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
Matthew 4:6κάτω
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: down, downwards (with verbs of motion), and below, beneath.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| down, downwards (with verbs of motion)Mat.4:6, Luk.4:9, Jhn.8:6, 8, Act.20:9. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 4:6“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down… |
| below, beneathMrk.14:66 | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:51At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom… |
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.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- κάτω8
The grammar of each form
- preposition8PREP
Matthew
two uses
“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: down
At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: bottom
Mark
two uses
While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the servant girls of the high priest came down
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: below
And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: bottom
Luke
one use
Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: down
John
one use
Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: below
Acts
two uses
I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: below
And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.
- κάτωkatoprepositiontagged: 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.