Strong G2673καταργέω

to abate

Transliteration
katargeō
Pronunciation
kat-arg-eh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G2596 and G691; to be (render) entirely idle (useless) literally or figuratively: - abolish cease cumber deliver destroy do away become (make) of no (none without) effect fail loose bring (come) to nought put away (down) vanish away make void.

Detailed definition

κατ-αργέω, -ῶ
(κατά, causative, ἀργός = ἀ-εργός), [in LXX: 2Es.4.21; 2Es.4.23; 2Es.5.5; 2Es.6.8 (בְּטֵל)*;]
to make idle or inactive (χέρας, Eur., Phœn., 753): of soil occupied by an unfruitful tree, Luk.13:7. Metaphorical (Inscr.), to render inoperative or invalid, to abrogate, abolish: Rom.3:3, 31, 1Co.1:28 6:13 13:11 15:24, Gal.3:17, Eph.2:15, 2Th.2:8, 2Ti.1:10, Heb.2:14; pass., Rom.4:14 6:6, 1Co.2:6 13:8 13:10 15:26, 2Co.3:7 3:11-14 Gal.5:11; before ἀπό (of persons), to be separated, discharged or loosed from, Rom.7:2, 6, Gal.5:4.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2673 appears in 26 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • destroy5
  • do5
  • effect4
  • abolish3
  • make3
  • nought2
  • put2
  • be1
  • become1
  • cease1
  • cumbereth1
  • deliver1

First verses

  1. Luke 13:7
    Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
  2. Romans 3:3
    For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
  3. Romans 3:31
    Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
  4. Romans 4:14
    For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
  5. Romans 6:6
    Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
  6. Romans 7:2
    For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
  7. Romans 7:6
    But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
  8. 1 Corinthians 1:28
    And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
  9. 1 Corinthians 2:6
    Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
  10. 1 Corinthians 6:13
    Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  11. 1 Corinthians 13:8
    Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  12. 1 Corinthians 13:10
    But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
  13. 1 Corinthians 13:11
    When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  14. 1 Corinthians 15:24
    Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
  15. 1 Corinthians 15:26
    The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
  16. 2 Corinthians 3:7
    But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
  17. 2 Corinthians 3:11
    For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
  18. 2 Corinthians 3:13
    And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
  19. 2 Corinthians 3:14
    But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
  20. Galatians 3:17
    And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
καταργ-έω,
leave unemployed or idle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Χέρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 753)]; κατηργηκέναι τοὺς καιρούς to have missed the opportunities, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus “fragment” 176; κ. τὴν γῆν)] make the ground useless, cumber it, [NT (“NT.Luke.13.7”.)]
2 cause to be idle, hinder in one's work, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.2Esd.4.21, “POxy.” 38.17 (1st c.AD):—)]passive, [LXX (LXX.2Esd.6.8)]; to be rendered or lie idle, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (PFlor. 176.7 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
II make of no effect, NT.Rom.3.3,31, +others:—passive, to be abolished, cease, [NT ([prev. work]6.6, NT.1Cor.2.6, etc.; κ. ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου)] to be set free from.., [NT (NT.Rom.7.2)]; to be parted, [Refs (ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ “Epistle to the Galatians” 5.4)].