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Lexicon :: Strong's G2597 - katabainō

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καταβαίνω
Transliteration
katabainō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ab-ah'-ee-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) and the base of βάσις (G939)
mGNT
81x in 28 unique form(s) TR
80x in 29 unique form(s) LXX
292x in 44 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:522,90

Strong’s Definitions

καταβαίνω katabaínō, kat-ab-ah'-ee-no; from G2596 and the base of G939; to descend (literally or figuratively):—come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x

The KJV translates Strong's G2597 in the following manner: come down (41x), descend (18x), go down (17x), fall down (1x), step down (1x), get down (1x), fall (1x), variations of 'come down' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x
The KJV translates Strong's G2597 in the following manner: come down (41x), descend (18x), go down (17x), fall down (1x), step down (1x), get down (1x), fall (1x), variations of 'come down' (1x).

  1. to go down, come down, descend

    1. the place from which one has come down from

    2. to come down

      1. as from the temple at Jerusalem, from the city of Jerusalem

      2. of celestial beings coming down to earth

    3. to be cast down

  2. of things

    1. to come (i.e. be sent) down

    2. to come (i.e. fall) down

      1. from the upper regions of the air

  3. metaph. to (go i.e.) be cast down to the lowest state of wretchedness and shame

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταβαίνω katabaínō, kat-ab-ah'-ee-no; from G2596 and the base of G939; to descend (literally or figuratively):—come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).
STRONGS G2597:
καταβαίνω; imperfect 3 person plural κατέβαινον; future καταβήσομαι; 2 aorist κατέβην, imperative κατάβηθι (Matthew 27:40; Luke 19:5; John 4:49; Acts 10:20) and κατάβα (Mark 15:30 (R G (where L T Tr WH participle καταβάς)), see ἀναβαίνω); perfect καταβέβηκα; (from Homer on); the Sept. for יָרַד; to go down, come down, descend;
1. of persons;
a. properly: absolutely, the place from which one has come down being evident from the context, καταβάς ἔστη, Luke 6:17 (cf. Luke 6:12); Luke 17:31 (followed here by an infinitive, so Matthew 24:17); Luke 19:5; John 5:7; Acts 20:10; Ephesians 4:10; followed by ἀπό with the genitive of the place, Matthew 8:1; Matthew 14:29; Matthew 17:9 Rec.; Matthew 27:40,42; Mark 9:9 (L Tr marginal reading WH text ἐκ); Mark 15:30,32; by ἐκ with the genitive of place, Matthew 17:9 G L T Tr WH (see ἐκ, I. 3); by εἰς with the accusative of place, Mark 13:15 (R G L brackets Tr; others omit εἰς etc.); Acts 8:38; (Romans 10:7); Ephesians 4:9.
b. to come down, as from the temple at Jerusalem, from the city of Jerusalem; also of celestial beings coming down to earth: absolutely, Matthew 3:16; Luke 2:51; Luke 10:31; John 4:47, 49, 51; Acts (Acts 7:34); Acts 8:15; 10:20; (Acts 23:10); Acts 24:1,22; followed by ἀπό with the genitive of the place, Mark 3:22; Luke 10:30; Acts 25:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Matthew 28:2; John 1:32; John 3:13; John 6:33, 38 (R G; others ἀπό), 41f, 50f, 58 (on these passages cf. Buttmann, 297 (255)); Revelation 10:1; Revelation 18:1; Revelation 20:1, followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Luke 10:30; Luke 18:14; John 2:12; Acts 7:15; Acts 14:25; Acts 16:8; Acts 18:22; Acts 25:6; by ἐπί with the accusative of place, John 6:16; with the accusative of the person; Mark 1:10 (R G L marginal reading); Luke 3:22; John 1:33, 51 (John 1:52); by ἐν with dative of place, John 5:4 (R L) (see ἐν, I. 7); by πρός with the accusative of person, Acts 10:21; Acts 14:11; contextually equivalent to to be cast down, of the devil, Revelation 12:12.
2. of things, to come (i. e. be sent) down: Acts 10:11 (Rec. adds ἐπ' αὐτόν); Acts 11:5; followed by ἀπό with a genitive of person, James 1:17; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπό τοῦ Θεοῦ, Revelation 3:12; Revelation 21:2, 10; to come (i. e. fall) down: from the upper regions of the air; as βροχή, Matthew 7:25, 27; λαῖλαψ, Luke 8:23; πῦρ ἀπό (Lachmann ἐκ) τοῦ οὐρανοῦ Luke 9:54; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς τήν γῆν, Revelation 13:13; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπό τοῦ Θεοῦ, Revelation 20:9 (R G Tr); χάλαζα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐπί τινα, Revelation 16:21; θρόμβοι ἐπί τήν γῆν, Luke 22:44 (L brackets WH reject the passage); of a way leading downward, Acts 8:26.
3. figuratively, καταβαίνειν ἕως ᾅδου, to (go i. e.) be cast down to the lowest state of wretchedness and shame: Matthew 11:23 L Tr WH; (Luke 10:15 WH text Tr marginal reading Compare: συγκαταβαίνω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
3:16; 7:25; 7:27; 8:1; 11:23; 14:29; 17:9; 17:9; 24:17; 27:40; 27:40; 27:42; 28:2
Mark
1:10; 3:22; 9:9; 13:15; 15:30; 15:30; 15:32
Luke
2:51; 3:22; 6:12; 6:17; 8:23; 9:54; 10:15; 10:30; 10:30; 10:31; 17:31; 18:14; 19:5; 19:5; 22:44
John
1:32; 1:33; 1:51; 2:12; 3:13; 4:47; 4:49; 4:49; 4:51; 5:4; 5:7; 6:16; 6:33; 6:38
Acts
7:15; 7:34; 8:15; 8:26; 8:38; 10:11; 10:20; 10:20; 10:21; 11:5; 14:11; 14:25; 16:8; 18:22; 20:10; 23:10; 24:1; 24:22; 25:6; 25:7
Romans
10:7
Ephesians
4:9; 4:10
1 Thessalonians
4:16
James
1:17
Revelation
3:12; 10:1; 12:12; 13:13; 16:21; 18:1; 20:1; 20:9; 21:2; 21:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2597 matches the Greek καταβαίνω (katabainō),
which occurs 292 times in 265 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 11:5–Num 16:33)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:21 - that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - "Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 - At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:2 - He then said, "Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:38

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:4 - If you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy food for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:13 - Take your brother too, and go right away to the man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:20 - They said, "My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - But you said to your servants, 'If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we replied, 'We cannot go down there. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go, for we won't be permitted to see the man's face if our youngest brother is not with us.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:9 - Now go up to my father quickly and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:4 - I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile, while her attendants were walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her attendants, took it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - All these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you,' and after that I will go out." Then Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:11 - and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:18 - Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:20 - The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:21 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:24 - The LORD said to him, "Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:25 - So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:16 - The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:1 - When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Get up, make us gods that will go before us. As for this fellow Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:7 - The LORD spoke to Moses: "Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands. The tablets were written on both sides - they were written on the front and on the back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:9 - And whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:5 - The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the LORD by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand - when he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:22 - Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them and descended from making the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:9 - And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:17 - Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take part of the spirit that is on you, and will put it on them, and they will bear some of the burden of the people with you, so that you do not bear it all by yourself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:5 - And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:45 - So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped down and attacked them as far as Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the LORD does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:33 - They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

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