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Strong G2602καταβολή

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Transliteration
katabolē
Pronunciation
kat-ab-ol-ay'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G2598; a deposition that is founding; figuratively conception: - conceive foundation.

Detailed definition

κατα-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(καταβάλλω), [in LXX: 2Ma.2:29 *;]
1. a laying down: εἰς κ. σπέρματος, Heb.11:11 (EV, to conceive seed).

2. a foundation (of a house, ii Mac, l.with): metaphorically, ἀπὸ κ. κόσμου, Mat.13:35 (LXX) (om. ἀπὸ κ. κόσμου, WH, R, mg.), Mat.25:34, Luk.11:50, Heb.4:3 9:26, Rev.13:8 17:8; πρὸ κ. κόσμου, Jhn.17:24, Eph.1:4, 1Pe.1:20.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2602 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • foundation10
  • conceive1

First verses

  1. Matthew 13:35
    That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
  2. Matthew 25:34
    Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
  3. Luke 11:50
    That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
  4. John 17:24
    Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
  5. Ephesians 1:4
    According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
  6. Hebrews 4:3
    For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
  7. Hebrews 9:26
    For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  8. Hebrews 11:11
    Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  9. 1 Peter 1:20
    Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
  10. Revelation 13:8
    And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
  11. Revelation 17:8
    The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
καταβολ-ή, ἡ,
throwing down: hence, sowing, [Refs (Corp.Herm. 9.6)]; especially of begetting, κ. σπέρματος, σπερμάτων, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 13, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 19, cf. NT.Heb.11.11, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.13.3)]; ἡ Ῥωμύλου σπορὰ καὶ κ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.320b.)]
b congenital defect, ἀπὸ ξυγγενικῆς αἰτίας καὶ κ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 37.)]
c Astrology texts, nativity, ἡ ἐξ ἀρχῆς κ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 220.29, +others)]
2 paying down, especially by instalments, καταβάλλειν τὰς κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.27)]; τὸ ἀργύριον ἔφερε καταβολὴν τῇ πόλει paid money as a deposit (by way of caution),[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (Docum.[prev. work] 37.22, compare “IG” 12(7).515.26 (Amorgos, 2nd c.BC), “UPZ” 112v12 (_plural_, 2nd c.BC))], etc.; ἔχειν τῆς γῆς.. καταβολήν liability for rent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Elephantine Papyri 23.17 (3rd c.BC))]: plural, instalments, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PLips. 12.17 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II laying of a foundation: hence, building, structure, [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (LXX.2Mac.2.29; τῆς ἀρχιτεκτονίας 3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 49.2; ἔργου 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.2.9: but usually _metaphorically_,)]
II.1 foundation, beginning, ἱερῶν ἀγώνων [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 2.4; τῆς περιόδου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 352b15; κ. ἐποιεῖτο καὶ θεμέλιον ὑπεβάλλετο τυραννίδος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 13.6.2; κ. κόσμου NT.Matt.13.35, NT.Eph.1.4; κ.κοσμική “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(3).138 (Thessal.); ἡ πρώτη κ. τῆς φιλοσόφου θεωρίας 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus)] in Alc.Praef.p.8C.; ἐκ καταβολῆς from the foundations: hence, anew, σκάφη ἐκ κ. ἐναυπηγοῦντο, of fresh construction, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.36.8)]; ἐκ κ. πλάττων, of pure invention, [Refs ([prev. author] 15.25.35)]: hence, of set purpose, deliberately, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.47.7, 24.8.9.)]
II.2 ={θυσία},{τελετή}, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, compare κατηβολή.)]
III periodical attack of illness, fit, τῆς ἀσθενείας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 519a, compare κατηβολ; πυρετοῦ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.29, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.399, 2.563, compare 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 50(26).59, [prev. author] 2.166J.;)] trance, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.16)]; cf. Latin catabolicus.
IV detraction, abuse, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.56S.: _plural_, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.571 codices)]
V perhaps outer wrapper [Refs (compare (κατάβλημα 11.4))] of a bandage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 9.)]