Strong's Lexicon
katapheró: To bring down, to cast down, to bear down
Original Word:καταφέρω
Part of Speech:Verb
Transliteration:katapheró
Pronunciation:kat-af-er'-o
Phonetic Spelling:(kat-af-er'-o)
Definition:To bring down, to cast down, to bear down
Meaning:I bear down, overpower; I give a vote or verdict, bring charges.
Word Origin:From the Greek words κατά (kata, meaning "down" or "against") and φέρω (pheró, meaning "to carry" or "to bear").
Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries:While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "katapheró," similar concepts can be found in Hebrew words like יָרַד (yarad, meaning "to go down" or "to descend") and נָפַל (naphal, meaning "to fall" or "to cast down").
Usage:The verb "katapheró" is used in the New Testament to convey the action of bringing something down or casting it down. It can imply a physical action of lowering or a metaphorical sense of overcoming or overpowering. The term is often used to describe a forceful or decisive action.
Cultural and Historical Background:In the Greco-Roman world, the concept of bringing something down could be associated with both physical actions, such as lowering a sail or casting down an enemy, and metaphorical actions, such as overcoming an argument or defeating a rival. The use of "katapheró" in the New Testament reflects these cultural understandings, often in the context of spiritual or moral struggles.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
kata and
pheróDefinitionto bring down
NASB Translationagainst (1), bringing (1), cast...against (1), overcome (1), sinking (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2702: καταφέρωκαταφέρω; 1 aorist
κατήνεγκα; passive, present
καταφέρομαι; 1 aorist
κατηνεχθην; (from
Homer down);
to bear down, bring down, cast down:
ψῆφον, properly, to cast a pebble or calculus namely, into the urn, i. e. to give one's vote,
to approve,Acts 26:10;
αἰτιώματακατάτίνος (see
κατά, I. 2 b. (but the critical editions reject
κατάκτλ.)),
Acts 25:7LTTrWH. Passive,
to be borne down, to sink (from the window to the pavement),
ἀπότοῦὕπνου, from sleep (from the effect of his deep sleep (cf.
Buttmann, 322 (277);
Winer's Grammar, 371 (348))),
Acts 20:9b; metaphorically,
to be weighed down by, overcome, carried away,καταφερόμενοςὕπνῳβάθει, sunk in a deep sleep,
Acts 20:9a; of a different sort (contra
Winer's Grammar, 431 (401)) is the expression in secular authors,
καταφέρομαιεἰςὕπνον, to sink into sleep, drop asleep,
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 5;
Herodian, 2, 1, 3 (2); 9, 6 (5);
τοισινὑπνοισιν, Hipp., p. 1137 c. ((Kühn iii., p. 539)), and in the same sense simply
καταφέρομαι; cf. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2 d.);
Stephanus' Thesaurus 4 col. 1286 (where the passage from Acts is fully discussed).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
fall, give, sink down.Fromkata andphero (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote -- fall, give, sink down.
see GREEKkata
see GREEKphero
Forms and Transliterations
καταφερομένη καταφερόμενον καταφερομενος καταφερόμενος καταφεροντες καταφέροντες κατενέγκη κατενεχθεις κατενεχθείς κατενεχθεὶς κατεφέρετο κατηνεγκα κατήνεγκα κατήνεγκαν κατηνέχθη κατήνεχθη katapheromenos katapherómenos katapherontes kataphérontes katenechtheis katenechtheìs katenenka katēnenka katḗnenkaLinks
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