Strong G2736κάτω
under
- Transliteration
- katō katōterō
- Pronunciation
- kat'-o kat-o-ter'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Preposition
Definition
Detailed definition
κάτω
adv. (κατά), [in LXX for מַטָּה, תַּחַת and cogn. forms;]
1. down, downwards (with verbs of motion), Mat.4:6, Luk.4:9, Jhn.8:6, 8, Act.20:9.
2. below, beneath: Mrk.14:66, Act.2:19" (LXX); ἕως κ. (Eze.1:27, al.), Mat.27:51, Mrk.15:38. τὰ κ. (opposite to τ. ἄνω), Jhn.8:23. Compar. κατωτέρω: ἀπὸ διετοῦς καὶ κ. (cf. 1Ch.27:21), Mat.2:16.†
(AS)
adv. (κατά), [in LXX for מַטָּה, תַּחַת and cogn. forms;]
1. down, downwards (with verbs of motion), Mat.4:6, Luk.4:9, Jhn.8:6, 8, Act.20:9.
2. below, beneath: Mrk.14:66, Act.2:19" (LXX); ἕως κ. (Eze.1:27, al.), Mat.27:51, Mrk.15:38. τὰ κ. (opposite to τ. ἄνω), Jhn.8:23. Compar. κατωτέρω: ἀπὸ διετοῦς καὶ κ. (cf. 1Ch.27:21), Mat.2:16.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2736 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- down4
- beneath3
- bottom2
- under1
- up1
First verses
- Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
- Matthew 4:6And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- Mark 14:66And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:
- Mark 15:38And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
- Luke 4:9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
- John 8:6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
- John 8:8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
- John 8:23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
- Acts 2:19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
- Acts 20:9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κάτω,
adverb, (κατά):
I with Verbs implying Motion, downwards, ἐπισκύνιον κ. ἕλκεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.136; κ. ὁρόων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.91; κατὰ τείχεος κ. ῥίπτειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.53; κατώρυξέν με κατὰ τῆς γῆς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 238; χώρει κ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 74; κ. δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 527 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 384)]; especially of the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 839, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 197, etc.)]; κ. βλέπειν, φέρεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500b, 584e)]; κ. διεχώρει αὐτοῖς they suffered from diarrhoea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.20)]; φάρμακον πῖσαι κ. give a purgative, [Refs ([prev. author] “Aff.” 32, compare 15)]; κ. βοηθεῖν go down to help, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.5)]; for ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ἄνω κάτω, etc., see at {ἄνω} (B) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.2.)]
I.2 downwards, in a chain of causes, ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἰέναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 994a19.)]
I.3 with genitive, down from, πετρῶν ὦσαι κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 448)].
II with Verbs implying Rest (so more frequently in Prose), beneath, below, opposed to ἄνω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 301, etc.: ὁ τόπος ὁ κ. καλούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112c.)]
II.b in the world below, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 660, “OC” 1563 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; οἱ κ. the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 865, “Ant.” 75, etc.; οἱ κ. θεοί [prev. author] “El.” 292, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 851.)]
II.c geographically below, southward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, see at {ἄνω} (B) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.1e)]; also κ. οἰκεῖν to dwell on the coast, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.7; οἱ κ., opposed to οἱ τὴν μεσόγειαν κατῳκημένοι, [prev. work] 120)]; ἡ. κ. Γαλατία lower Galatia, Plu [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Aem.” 9, etc.; βασιλεὺς τῶν τε ἄνω καὶ τῶν κ. χωρῶν “OGI” 90.3 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC).)]
II.d in the race-course, τὰ κ. the starting-place, opposed to τὰ ἄνω (the goal), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 613b.)]
II.e τὰ κ. τῶν μελῶν the lower limbs of the body, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 794d)]; ἡ κ. κοιλία, opposed to ἡ ἄνω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 360b24. “PA” 676a5)]; περὶ τὰ κ. χωρεῖν miscarry, fail, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 1.)]
II.f of Time, afterwards, later, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 5.13; οἱ κ. χρόνοι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 25)]; οἱ κ., opposed to οἱ πάλαι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hipp.” 1)]; τοῦ χρόνου κ. later in time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 3.17, “NA” 2.18; Δαρεῖος ὁ κ. [prev. work] 6.48)]; compare ἄνω (B) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.1i.)]
II.g in Logic, τὰ κ. the lower members in a descending series of genera and species, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Anthologia Graeca” 0.97a31, “Metaphorical” 992a18.)]
III with genitive, under, below, κ. χθονός, γῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 1023, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 968, etc.)]
IV comparative κατωτέρω lower, downwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 70, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 173.2)]: with genitive, lower than, below, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.132.)]
IV.2 superlative κατωτάτω at the lowest part, τὰ κ. [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.125 (but in signification 11.g, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 29).)]
adverb, (κατά):
I with Verbs implying Motion, downwards, ἐπισκύνιον κ. ἕλκεται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.136; κ. ὁρόων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.91; κατὰ τείχεος κ. ῥίπτειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.53; κατώρυξέν με κατὰ τῆς γῆς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 238; χώρει κ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 74; κ. δάκρυ᾽ εἰβομένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 527 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 384)]; especially of the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 839, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 197, etc.)]; κ. βλέπειν, φέρεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 500b, 584e)]; κ. διεχώρει αὐτοῖς they suffered from diarrhoea, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.20)]; φάρμακον πῖσαι κ. give a purgative, [Refs ([prev. author] “Aff.” 32, compare 15)]; κ. βοηθεῖν go down to help, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 32.5)]; for ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ἄνω κάτω, etc., see at {ἄνω} (B) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.2.)]
I.2 downwards, in a chain of causes, ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἰέναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 994a19.)]
I.3 with genitive, down from, πετρῶν ὦσαι κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 448)].
II with Verbs implying Rest (so more frequently in Prose), beneath, below, opposed to ἄνω, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 301, etc.: ὁ τόπος ὁ κ. καλούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112c.)]
II.b in the world below, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 660, “OC” 1563 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; οἱ κ. the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Aj.” 865, “Ant.” 75, etc.; οἱ κ. θεοί [prev. author] “El.” 292, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 851.)]
II.c geographically below, southward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, see at {ἄνω} (B) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.1e)]; also κ. οἰκεῖν to dwell on the coast, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.7; οἱ κ., opposed to οἱ τὴν μεσόγειαν κατῳκημένοι, [prev. work] 120)]; ἡ. κ. Γαλατία lower Galatia, Plu [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Aem.” 9, etc.; βασιλεὺς τῶν τε ἄνω καὶ τῶν κ. χωρῶν “OGI” 90.3 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC).)]
II.d in the race-course, τὰ κ. the starting-place, opposed to τὰ ἄνω (the goal), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 613b.)]
II.e τὰ κ. τῶν μελῶν the lower limbs of the body, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 794d)]; ἡ κ. κοιλία, opposed to ἡ ἄνω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 360b24. “PA” 676a5)]; περὶ τὰ κ. χωρεῖν miscarry, fail, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 1.)]
II.f of Time, afterwards, later, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 5.13; οἱ κ. χρόνοι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 25)]; οἱ κ., opposed to οἱ πάλαι, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hipp.” 1)]; τοῦ χρόνου κ. later in time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 3.17, “NA” 2.18; Δαρεῖος ὁ κ. [prev. work] 6.48)]; compare ἄνω (B) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11.1i.)]
II.g in Logic, τὰ κ. the lower members in a descending series of genera and species, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Anthologia Graeca” 0.97a31, “Metaphorical” 992a18.)]
III with genitive, under, below, κ. χθονός, γῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 1023, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 968, etc.)]
IV comparative κατωτέρω lower, downwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 70, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 173.2)]: with genitive, lower than, below, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.132.)]
IV.2 superlative κατωτάτω at the lowest part, τὰ κ. [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.125 (but in signification 11.g, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 29).)]