Strong G2609κατάγω
to bring down
- Transliteration
- katagō
- Pronunciation
- kat-ag'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
κατ-άγω
[in LXX chiefly for יָרַד hi.;]
to bring down: with accusative of person(s), Act.22:30, Rom.10:6; id. before εἰς, Act.9:30 23:15, 20 23:28; as nautical term, to bring to land: τ. πλοῖον ἐπὶ τ. γῆν, Luk.5:11; pass., before εἰς, Act.27:3 2:12.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָרַד hi.;]
to bring down: with accusative of person(s), Act.22:30, Rom.10:6; id. before εἰς, Act.9:30 23:15, 20 23:28; as nautical term, to bring to land: τ. πλοῖον ἐπὶ τ. γῆν, Luk.5:11; pass., before εἰς, Act.27:3 2:12.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2609 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bring7
- down4
- forth1
- land1
- landing1
- touch1
First verses
- Luke 5:11And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
- Acts 9:30Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
- Acts 21:3Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
- Acts 22:30On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
- Acts 23:15Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
- Acts 23:20And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
- Acts 23:28And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
- Acts 27:3And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
- Acts 28:12And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
- Romans 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κατ-άγω [ᾰγ],
future -ξω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc.)]: aorist κατήγᾰγον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.164, 4th c.BC: Epigenes Comicus 7: rarely)]aorist 1 κατῆξα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.20, “PGrenf.” 2.44 (2nd c.AD), 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 10.4)]: Epic dialect aorist infinitive -αξέμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.53:)]perfect καταγήοχα[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Decrees cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.73)]:—lead down, especially into the nether world, ψυχὰς μνηστήρων κατάγων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.100; εἰς Ἀΐδαο 11.164, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.34, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.6.2)]: generally, bring down to a place, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.163; τὴν ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν ὕλην εἰς τὸ ἄστυ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 118d, etc.)]; bring down a river or canal, [Refs (“PGrenf.” [same place])]:—passive, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 708.3 (2nd c.AD).)]
2 draw down, κατῆγεν ἦγεν ἦγεν ἐς μέλαν πέδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1065)]; especially by magic arts, κ. τὸν Δία [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 15; ἀετόν [prev. work] 8)], uncertain meaning in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.9.4.)]
3 bring down to the sea-coast, κατάγειν κοίλας ἐπὶ νῆας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.26, compare 6.53; ἐπὶ θάλατταν τὸ στράτευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.18.)]
3.b launch, σκάφος εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 1.)]
4 bring down from the high seas to land, τὸν Κρήτηνδε κατήγαγε ἲς ἀνέμοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.186)]: absolutely, put in to shore,[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3.10 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus (κατάγοντο codices))]; especially for purposes of exacting toll or plundering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.33, “An.” 5.1.11, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.25, +others; κ. ναῦς ἐς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν συμμάχους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.28; also κ. τοὺς ἐμπόρους 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.95.4, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.82)]; κ. σαγήνην draw it to land, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 4)]; τοῦ πνεύματος κλύδωνα κατάγοντος πολύν bringing in a heavy swell from the sea, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mar.” 36; ὥρα πνεῦμα λαμπρὸν ἐκ πελάγους κατάγουσα [prev. author] “Them.” 14)]:—passive, come to land, land, opposed to ἀνάγεσθαι, of seamen as well as ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.178; ἐπ᾽ ἀκτῆς νηΐ κατηγαγόμεσθα 10.140, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43; Σίγειον οὐρίῳ πλάτῃ κατηγόμην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 356; κατάγεσθαι ἐς τὸν Μαραθῶνα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.107, compare 8.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240c; εἰς τὸν λιμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.36.)]
4.b κατάγεσθαι παρά τινι turn in and lodge in a person's house, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 344, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.39, “PFlor.” 248.11 (3rd c.AD))]; ὥς τινα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.22; εἰς οἰκίαν [prev. author] 49.22; εἰς πανδοκεῖον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.773e.)]
5 draw down or out, spin, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 46, 4th c.BC: Epigenes Comicus 7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 226b)]; κατάγουσα, ἡ, spinning-girl, statue by Praxiteles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 34.69: _metaphorically_, κ. λόγον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 80e.)]
6 reduce to a state, ἐς κίνδυνον φανερὸν κ. τὴν πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.68)]; ὁ οἶνος εἰς ὕπνον κ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 13.6.)]
7 bring home, gain, θρίαμβον καὶ νίκην τῇ πατρίδι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.33.7; ἐκ πολέμων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 24)]; escort, ἐπὶ τιμητείαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Aem.” 38, etc.)]
8 κ. γένος derive a pedigree, ἀπό τινος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.843e, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus 61 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus:)] —passive, τὰ στέμματα κατάγεται εἴς τινα are traced down to.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 1; φᾶμαι κατάγοντο 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 1.39)] P.; of persons, to be descended, ἀπό τινος [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “Vita Platonis;” p.1 W.)]
9 derive a word, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.242 (_passive_))]: generally, derive, ὅθεν δεῖ κατῆχθαι καὶ πῶς ἀποδεικνύειν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.203S.)]; κ. [βοάν] lower the voice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 149 (Lyric poetry))]: metaphorically, bring down, lower, πρὸς αὑτόν to one's own standard, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 40.11.)]
10 in Medicine texts, couch a cataract, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).680.)]
11 wind up a torsion-engine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 76.13)]:—passive, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 79.6; ὁ κατάγων τὴν Χεῖρα 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 75.9.)]
12 καταγόμενος current, ἐνιαυτός [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 27.16.)]
II bring back, κατὰ δὲ φρόνιν ἤγαγε πολλήν brought back much news [of Troy], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.258)]; especially from banishment, recall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 647, 660, etc.; κ. οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.2)]: generally, restore, τυραννίδας ἐς τὰς πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92. ; εἰς τὰς πατρίδας.. εἰρήνην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.105.2; ἐκ ταλαιπωρίας 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.58c)]:—passive, return, ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.36.)]
future -ξω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc.)]: aorist κατήγᾰγον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.164, 4th c.BC: Epigenes Comicus 7: rarely)]aorist 1 κατῆξα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.2.20, “PGrenf.” 2.44 (2nd c.AD), 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 10.4)]: Epic dialect aorist infinitive -αξέμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.53:)]perfect καταγήοχα[Refs 4th c.BC+ (Decrees cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.73)]:—lead down, especially into the nether world, ψυχὰς μνηστήρων κατάγων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.100; εἰς Ἀΐδαο 11.164, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.34, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.6.2)]: generally, bring down to a place, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.163; τὴν ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν ὕλην εἰς τὸ ἄστυ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 118d, etc.)]; bring down a river or canal, [Refs (“PGrenf.” [same place])]:—passive, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 708.3 (2nd c.AD).)]
2 draw down, κατῆγεν ἦγεν ἦγεν ἐς μέλαν πέδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1065)]; especially by magic arts, κ. τὸν Δία [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 15; ἀετόν [prev. work] 8)], uncertain meaning in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.9.4.)]
3 bring down to the sea-coast, κατάγειν κοίλας ἐπὶ νῆας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.26, compare 6.53; ἐπὶ θάλατταν τὸ στράτευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.18.)]
3.b launch, σκάφος εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 1.)]
4 bring down from the high seas to land, τὸν Κρήτηνδε κατήγαγε ἲς ἀνέμοιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.186)]: absolutely, put in to shore,[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3.10 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus (κατάγοντο codices))]; especially for purposes of exacting toll or plundering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.33, “An.” 5.1.11, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.25, +others; κ. ναῦς ἐς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν συμμάχους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.28; also κ. τοὺς ἐμπόρους 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.95.4, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.82)]; κ. σαγήνην draw it to land, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 4)]; τοῦ πνεύματος κλύδωνα κατάγοντος πολύν bringing in a heavy swell from the sea, [Refs ([prev. author] “Mar.” 36; ὥρα πνεῦμα λαμπρὸν ἐκ πελάγους κατάγουσα [prev. author] “Them.” 14)]:—passive, come to land, land, opposed to ἀνάγεσθαι, of seamen as well as ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.178; ἐπ᾽ ἀκτῆς νηΐ κατηγαγόμεσθα 10.140, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43; Σίγειον οὐρίῳ πλάτῃ κατηγόμην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 356; κατάγεσθαι ἐς τὸν Μαραθῶνα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.107, compare 8.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 240c; εἰς τὸν λιμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.36.)]
4.b κατάγεσθαι παρά τινι turn in and lodge in a person's house, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 344, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.39, “PFlor.” 248.11 (3rd c.AD))]; ὥς τινα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.22; εἰς οἰκίαν [prev. author] 49.22; εἰς πανδοκεῖον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.773e.)]
5 draw down or out, spin, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 46, 4th c.BC: Epigenes Comicus 7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 226b)]; κατάγουσα, ἡ, spinning-girl, statue by Praxiteles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 34.69: _metaphorically_, κ. λόγον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 80e.)]
6 reduce to a state, ἐς κίνδυνον φανερὸν κ. τὴν πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.68)]; ὁ οἶνος εἰς ὕπνον κ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 13.6.)]
7 bring home, gain, θρίαμβον καὶ νίκην τῇ πατρίδι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.33.7; ἐκ πολέμων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 24)]; escort, ἐπὶ τιμητείαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Aem.” 38, etc.)]
8 κ. γένος derive a pedigree, ἀπό τινος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.843e, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus 61 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus:)] —passive, τὰ στέμματα κατάγεται εἴς τινα are traced down to.., [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 1; φᾶμαι κατάγοντο 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 1.39)] P.; of persons, to be descended, ἀπό τινος [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “Vita Platonis;” p.1 W.)]
9 derive a word, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.242 (_passive_))]: generally, derive, ὅθεν δεῖ κατῆχθαι καὶ πῶς ἀποδεικνύειν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.203S.)]; κ. [βοάν] lower the voice, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 149 (Lyric poetry))]: metaphorically, bring down, lower, πρὸς αὑτόν to one's own standard, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 40.11.)]
10 in Medicine texts, couch a cataract, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).680.)]
11 wind up a torsion-engine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 76.13)]:—passive, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 79.6; ὁ κατάγων τὴν Χεῖρα 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 75.9.)]
12 καταγόμενος current, ἐνιαυτός [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 27.16.)]
II bring back, κατὰ δὲ φρόνιν ἤγαγε πολλήν brought back much news [of Troy], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.258)]; especially from banishment, recall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 647, 660, etc.; κ. οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.2)]: generally, restore, τυραννίδας ἐς τὰς πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92. ; εἰς τὰς πατρίδας.. εἰρήνην 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.105.2; ἐκ ταλαιπωρίας 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.58c)]:—passive, return, ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.36.)]