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Lexicon :: Strong's G2647 - katalyō

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καταλύω
Transliteration
katalyō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-al-oo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:338,543

Strong’s Definitions

καταλύω katalýō, kat-al-oo'-o; from G2596 and G3089; to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night:—destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G2647 in the following manner: destroy (9x), throw down (3x), lodge (1x), guest (1x), come to nought (1x), overthrow (1x), dissolve (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G2647 in the following manner: destroy (9x), throw down (3x), lodge (1x), guest (1x), come to nought (1x), overthrow (1x), dissolve (1x).

  1. to dissolve, disunite

    1. (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish

    2. metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught

      1. to subvert, overthrow

        1. of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard

    3. of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from the fact that the traveller's garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταλύω katalýō, kat-al-oo'-o; from G2596 and G3089; to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night:—destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.
STRONGS G2647:
καταλύω; future καταλύσω; 1 aorist κατέλυσα; 1 aorist passive κατελυθην; 1 future passive 3 person singular καταλυθήσεται; to dissolve, disunite (see, III. 4);
a. (what has been joined together) equivalent to to destroy, demolish: λίθους (A. V. throw down), Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6; τόν ναόν, Matthew 26:61; Matthew 27:40; Mark 14:58; Mark 15:29; Acts 6:14; οἰκίαν, 2 Corinthians 5:1; universally opposed to οἰκοδομεῖν, Galatians 2:18 (2 Esdr. 5:12; Homer, Iliad 9, 24f; 2, 117; τευχη, Euripides, Tro. 819; γέφυραν, Herodian, 8, 4, 4 (2 edition, Bekker)).
b. metaphorically, to overthrow, i. e. to render vain, to deprive of success, to bring to naught: τήν βουλήν ἤ τό ἔργον, Acts 5:38 (τάς ἀπειλάς, 4 Macc. 4:16); τινα, to render fruitless one's desires, endeavors, etc. ibid. 39 G L T Tr WH (Plato, legg. 4, p. 714 c.); to subvert, overthrow: τό ἔργον τοῦ Θεοῦ (see ἀγαθός, 2), Romans 14:20. As in classical Greek from Herodotus down, of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard: τόν νόμον, Matthew 5:17 (2 Macc. 2:22; Xenophon, mem. 4, 4, 14; Isocrates paneg. § 55; Philost. v., Apoll. 4, 40).
c. of travelers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, perhaps more correctly, from the fact that the traveler's garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at its end; cf. ἀναλύω, 2): Luke 9:12; Luke 19:7; so in Greek writings from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato down; the Sept. for לוּן, Genesis 19:2; Genesis 24:23, 25, etc.; Sir. 14:25, 27 Sir. 36:31; (cf. Buttmann, 145 (127)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
19:2; 24:23; 24:25
Matthew
5:17; 24:2; 26:61; 27:40
Mark
13:2; 14:58; 15:29
Luke
9:12; 19:7; 21:6
Acts
5:38; 6:14
Romans
14:20
2 Corinthians
5:1
Galatians
2:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2647 matches the Greek καταλύω (katalyō),
which occurs 41 times in 39 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - and said, “Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - She added, “We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21 - And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 - While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - And Joshua the son of Nun sent[fn] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[fn] like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 - The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44 - You have made his splendor to cease
and cast his throne to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - “How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
and have sworn by those who are no gods.
When I fed them to the full,
they committed adultery
and trooped to the houses of whores.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:22 - Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying,
“‘Your trusted friends have deceived you
and prevailed against you;
now that your feet are sunk in the mud,
they turn away from you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - The horror you inspire has deceived you,
and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[fn]
who hold the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31 - “Rise up, advance against a nation at ease,
that dwells securely,
declares the LORD,
that has no gates or bars,
that dwells alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her cities have become a horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 - “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you,
“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7 - The seacoast shall become the possession
of the remnant of the house of Judah,
on which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
they shall lie down at evening.
For the LORD their God will be mindful of them
and restore their fortunes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
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