Strong's Concordance kathaireó: to take down, pull down Original Word: καθαιρέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kathaireó Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ahee-reh'-o) Short Definition: I take down, depose, destroy Definition: (a) I take down, pull down, depose, destroy. HELPS Word-studies 2507 kathairéō (from 2596 /katá, "down" and 138 /hairéomai, "to choose, make one's own") – properly, take down for oneself ("take for oneself"), i.e. forcibly yank down; destroy, leaving nothing "standing" or even in good working order; cast down. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2507: καθαιρέωκαθαιρέω, καθαίρω; future καθελῶ (Luke 12:18 (see ἀφαιρέω, at the beginning)); 2 aorist καθεῖλον (from the obsolete έ῾λω); present passive καθαιροῦμαι; from Homer down; the Sept. for הורִיד, to cause to go down; הָרַס, נָתַץ, פָּרַץ; 1. to take down: without the notion of violence, τινα, to detach from the cross one crucified, Mark 15:36, 46; Luke 23:53 (Polybius 1, 86, 6; Philo in Flacc. § 10); τινα ἀπό τοῦ ξύλου, Acts 13:23 (the Sept. Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:27); with the use of force, to throw down, cast down: τινα ἀπό θρόνου, Luke 1:52. 2. to pull down, demolish: τάς ἀποθήκας, opposed to οἰκοδομεῖν, Luke 12:18; λογισμούς, the (subtle) reasonings (of opponents) likened to fortresses, equivalent to to refute, 2 Corinthians 10:4 (5); to destroy, ἔθνη, Acts 13:19 (Jeremiah 24:6; Thucydides 1, 4; Aelian v. h. 2, 25); τήν μεγαλειότητα τίνος, Acts 19:27, where if preference is given (with L T Tr WH) to the reading τῆς μεγαλειότητος αὐτῆς, it must be taken as a partitive genitive somewhat of her magnificence; cf. Buttmann, 158 (138) note (so Meyer; cf. Xenophon, Hell. 4, 4, 13. Al. translate that she should even be deposed from her magnificence; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 6; Buttmann, § 132, 5). From kata and haireomai (including its alternate); to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively) -- cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy. see GREEK kata see GREEK haireomai Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 25079 Occurrences καθαιρεῖσθαι — 1 Occ. καθαιροῦντες — 1 Occ. καθεῖλεν — 1 Occ. καθελεῖν — 1 Occ. καθελῶ — 1 Occ. καθελὼν — 3 Occ. καθελόντες — 1 Occ. Mark 15:36 V-ANA GRK: ἔρχεται Ἠλίας καθελεῖν αὐτόν NAS: Elijah will come to take Him down. KJV: to take him down. INT: comes Elijah to take down him Mark 15:46 V-APA-NMS Luke 1:52 V-AIA-3S Luke 12:18 V-FIA-1S Luke 23:53 V-APA-NMS Acts 13:19 V-APA-NMS Acts 13:29 V-APA-NMP Acts 19:27 V-PNM/P 2 Corinthians 10:5 V-PPA-NMP |