Strong G2507καθαιρέω
to take down
- Transliteration
- kathaireō
- Pronunciation
- kath-ahee-reh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
καθ-αιρέω, -ῶ
[in LXX for נָתַץ, פָּרַץ, יָרַד, etc.;]
1. to take down: with accusative of person(s) (the technical term for removal after crucifixion, Field, Notes, 44), Mrk.15:36, 46, Luk.23:53, Act.13:29.
2. to put down by force, pull down, destroy: ἀποθήκας, Luk.12:18 (opposite to οἰκοδομεῖν); δυνάστας, Luk.1:52; ἔθνη, Act.13:19; pass., Act.19:27 (diminished, Field, Notes, 129 f.); figuratively, to refute: λογισμούς, 2Co.10:5.†
(AS)
[in LXX for נָתַץ, פָּרַץ, יָרַד, etc.;]
1. to take down: with accusative of person(s) (the technical term for removal after crucifixion, Field, Notes, 44), Mrk.15:36, 46, Luk.23:53, Act.13:29.
2. to put down by force, pull down, destroy: ἀποθήκας, Luk.12:18 (opposite to οἰκοδομεῖν); δυνάστας, Luk.1:52; ἔθνη, Act.13:19; pass., Act.19:27 (diminished, Field, Notes, 129 f.); figuratively, to refute: λογισμούς, 2Co.10:5.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2507 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- take4
- down3
- destroy2
- cast1
- pull1
- put1
First verses
- Mark 15:36And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
- Mark 15:46And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
- Luke 1:52He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
- Luke 12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
- Luke 23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
- Acts 13:19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
- Acts 13:29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
- Acts 19:27So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
- 2 Corinthians 10:5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
καθαιρ-έω,
Ionic dialect κατ-, Aeolic dialect κατάγρημι, which see: future -ήσω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.453, etc.)]: future [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2 καθελῶ “APl.” 4.334 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus):)]aorist 2 καθεῖλον, infinitive καθελεῖν: aorist 1 καθεῖλα [LXX (LXX.1Ki.19.14)]: Ionic dialect perfect participle passive καταραιρημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.172)]:—take down, καθείλομεν ἱστία [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.149; κὰδ δ᾽ ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.268)]; κ. ἄχθος take it down, i.e. off one's shoulders, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 10; κ. τὸ σημεῖον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36)]; κ. τῶν ἐκ τῆς στοᾶς ὅπλων some of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.8; κ. εἰκόνα ἐξ ἀκροπόλεως 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 117)]; κ. τινά, from the cross, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.86.6, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.529:)] —middle, κατελέσθαι τὰ τόξα take down one's bow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78; τοὺς ἱστούς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.61.1.)]
2 put down, close the eyes of the dead, ὄσσε καθαιρήσουσι θανόντι περ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.453; ὀφθαλμοὺς καθελοῦσα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.296; χερσὶ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἑλέειν 11.426.)]
3 of sorcerers, bring down from the sky, σελήνην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 750, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 513a.)]
4 κατά με πέδον γᾶς ἕλοι may earth swallow me! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 829 (Lyric poetry).)]
II put down by force, destroy, ὅτε κέν μιν μοῖρ᾽ ὀλοὴ καθέλῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.100, 19.145, compare 3.238, etc.; μὴ καθέλοι μιν αἰών 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.60; φῶτ᾽ ἄδικον καθαιρεῖ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 398 (Lyric poetry); μοῖρα τὸν φύσαντα καθεῖλε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 517, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 878 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; kill, slay, ταῦρον[Refs 7th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1143, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1063, “fragment” 205)]; ἐάν τις ἀποκτείνῃ.. ἐν ὁδῷ καθελών Legal cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.53)]:—passive, of criminals, to be executed, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 22.)]
II.2 put down, reduce, κ. Κῦρον καὶ τὴν Περσέων δύναμιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, etc.)]; καθαιρεθῆναι, opposed to ἀρθῆναι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.8)]; especially depose, dethrone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.124, etc.)]; κ. τὸ λῃστικὸν ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης remove it utterly from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4, compare “POxy.” 1408.23 (3rd c.AD))]; κ. ὕβριν τινός [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.27, LXX.Zech.9.6; ὄλβον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 646.4; ὑπερηφάνους Aristeas 263:—)]passive, καθῃρημένος τὴν αἴσθησιν bereft of sense, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 38)]; καθαιρεῖσθαι τῆς μεγαλειότητος [Ἀρτέμιδος] [NT (NT.Act.19.27.)]
II.3 raze to the ground, demolish, πόλεις [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.58, +others, LXX.Isa.14.17; τείχη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 244c)]; τῶν τειχῶν a part of the walls, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.13)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.39, etc.; καθῃρέθη.. Οἰχαλία δορί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 478.)]
II.4 cancel, rescind, τὸ Μεγαρέων ψήφισμα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140, compare 139, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 29; ἔργον κ. λόγῳ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 140.)]
II.5 as law-term, condemn, ἡ καθαιροῦσα ψῆφος a verdict of guilty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.37)]: with infinitive, ἐμὲ πάλος καθαιρεῖ.. λαβεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 275; so probably κατά με.. Ἀΐδας ἕλοι πατρὶ ξυνθανεῖν [prev. author] “OC” 1689 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 862)]; simply, decide, ὅ τι ἂν αἱ πλείους ψῆφοι καθαιρῶσι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.36, 39)]; in book-keeping, ἃν καθαιρῶσιν αἱ ψῆφοι whatever the counters (or accounts) prove, probably in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.227.)]
II.6 reduce, τῶν αὐξανομένων καὶ καθαιρουμένων γραμμῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 237b9; τοῦ ἀποστήματος πεφυκότος ἐπὶ πολὺ καθαιρεῖν τὰ μεγέθη 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 9)]; of mild caustics, τὰ ὑπερσαρκέοντα καθαιρεῖ (probably to be read instead of καθαίρει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑλκῶν” 14, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.756; τὸ σῶμα κ. διαίταις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 53)]: Rhet., minimize, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1376a34.)]
III overpower, seize, κὰδ δέ μιν ὕπνος ᾕρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.372)]; κ. τινά overtake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.16)]; κ. τινὰ ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ catch in the act of folly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 383 (_anapaest meter_): with _genitive_ partis, κ. τῶν ὤτων)] seize by.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.133)]:—passive, κ. ὑπό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.29.)]
IV fetch down as a reward or prize, καθαιρεῖν ἀγῶνας [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 8)]: metaphorically, achieve, ἀγώνιον.. εὖχος ἔργῳ καθελών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).63:)]future infinitive καθαρεῖν, παστόν, μίτραν[Refs (, epigram in “Berl.Sitzb.” 1894.908 (Asia Minor))]:—middle, φόνῳ καθαιρεῖσθ᾽, οὐ λόγῳ, τὰ πράγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 749)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.50.)]
V less frequently like the simple αἱρεῖν, take and carry off, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.41, compare 5.36 (_passive_). Cf. καθαίρω.)]
Ionic dialect κατ-, Aeolic dialect κατάγρημι, which see: future -ήσω[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.453, etc.)]: future [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2 καθελῶ “APl.” 4.334 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus):)]aorist 2 καθεῖλον, infinitive καθελεῖν: aorist 1 καθεῖλα [LXX (LXX.1Ki.19.14)]: Ionic dialect perfect participle passive καταραιρημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.172)]:—take down, καθείλομεν ἱστία [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.149; κὰδ δ᾽ ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.268)]; κ. ἄχθος take it down, i.e. off one's shoulders, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 10; κ. τὸ σημεῖον 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36)]; κ. τῶν ἐκ τῆς στοᾶς ὅπλων some of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.8; κ. εἰκόνα ἐξ ἀκροπόλεως 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 117)]; κ. τινά, from the cross, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.86.6, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.529:)] —middle, κατελέσθαι τὰ τόξα take down one's bow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78; τοὺς ἱστούς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.61.1.)]
2 put down, close the eyes of the dead, ὄσσε καθαιρήσουσι θανόντι περ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.453; ὀφθαλμοὺς καθελοῦσα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.296; χερσὶ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἑλέειν 11.426.)]
3 of sorcerers, bring down from the sky, σελήνην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 750, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 513a.)]
4 κατά με πέδον γᾶς ἕλοι may earth swallow me! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 829 (Lyric poetry).)]
II put down by force, destroy, ὅτε κέν μιν μοῖρ᾽ ὀλοὴ καθέλῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.100, 19.145, compare 3.238, etc.; μὴ καθέλοι μιν αἰών 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.60; φῶτ᾽ ἄδικον καθαιρεῖ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 398 (Lyric poetry); μοῖρα τὸν φύσαντα καθεῖλε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 517, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 878 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; kill, slay, ταῦρον[Refs 7th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1143, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Stesichorus Lyricus 23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1063, “fragment” 205)]; ἐάν τις ἀποκτείνῃ.. ἐν ὁδῷ καθελών Legal cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.53)]:—passive, of criminals, to be executed, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 22.)]
II.2 put down, reduce, κ. Κῦρον καὶ τὴν Περσέων δύναμιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.71, etc.)]; καθαιρεθῆναι, opposed to ἀρθῆναι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.8)]; especially depose, dethrone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.124, etc.)]; κ. τὸ λῃστικὸν ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης remove it utterly from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4, compare “POxy.” 1408.23 (3rd c.AD))]; κ. ὕβριν τινός [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.27, LXX.Zech.9.6; ὄλβον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 646.4; ὑπερηφάνους Aristeas 263:—)]passive, καθῃρημένος τὴν αἴσθησιν bereft of sense, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 38)]; καθαιρεῖσθαι τῆς μεγαλειότητος [Ἀρτέμιδος] [NT (NT.Act.19.27.)]
II.3 raze to the ground, demolish, πόλεις [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.58, +others, LXX.Isa.14.17; τείχη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 244c)]; τῶν τειχῶν a part of the walls, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.13)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.39, etc.; καθῃρέθη.. Οἰχαλία δορί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 478.)]
II.4 cancel, rescind, τὸ Μεγαρέων ψήφισμα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.140, compare 139, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 29; ἔργον κ. λόγῳ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 140.)]
II.5 as law-term, condemn, ἡ καθαιροῦσα ψῆφος a verdict of guilty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.37)]: with infinitive, ἐμὲ πάλος καθαιρεῖ.. λαβεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 275; so probably κατά με.. Ἀΐδας ἕλοι πατρὶ ξυνθανεῖν [prev. author] “OC” 1689 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 862)]; simply, decide, ὅ τι ἂν αἱ πλείους ψῆφοι καθαιρῶσι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.36, 39)]; in book-keeping, ἃν καθαιρῶσιν αἱ ψῆφοι whatever the counters (or accounts) prove, probably in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.227.)]
II.6 reduce, τῶν αὐξανομένων καὶ καθαιρουμένων γραμμῶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 237b9; τοῦ ἀποστήματος πεφυκότος ἐπὶ πολὺ καθαιρεῖν τὰ μεγέθη 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 9)]; of mild caustics, τὰ ὑπερσαρκέοντα καθαιρεῖ (probably to be read instead of καθαίρει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑλκῶν” 14, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.756; τὸ σῶμα κ. διαίταις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 53)]: Rhet., minimize, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1376a34.)]
III overpower, seize, κὰδ δέ μιν ὕπνος ᾕρει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.372)]; κ. τινά overtake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.16)]; κ. τινὰ ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ catch in the act of folly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 383 (_anapaest meter_): with _genitive_ partis, κ. τῶν ὤτων)] seize by.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.133)]:—passive, κ. ὑπό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.29.)]
IV fetch down as a reward or prize, καθαιρεῖν ἀγῶνας [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 8)]: metaphorically, achieve, ἀγώνιον.. εὖχος ἔργῳ καθελών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).63:)]future infinitive καθαρεῖν, παστόν, μίτραν[Refs (, epigram in “Berl.Sitzb.” 1894.908 (Asia Minor))]:—middle, φόνῳ καθαιρεῖσθ᾽, οὐ λόγῳ, τὰ πράγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 749)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.50.)]
V less frequently like the simple αἱρεῖν, take and carry off, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.41, compare 5.36 (_passive_). Cf. καθαίρω.)]