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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)).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 BoxGen 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21 - But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - “Spend the night here,” Balaam said to them, “and I will report back to you with the answer the LORD gives me.” So the Moabite officials stayed with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 - While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 - Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - Then when the man, with his concubine and his servant, got up to leave, his father-in-law, the woman’s father, said, “Now look, it’s almost evening. Spend the night here; the day is nearly over. Stay and enjoy yourself. Early tomorrow morning you can get up and be on your way home.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - There they stopped to spend the night. They went and sat in the city square, but no one took them in for the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - “You are welcome at my house,” the old man said. “Let me supply whatever you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 - The Levites and all the men of Judah did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44 - You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 - Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 - “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who live in the wilderness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:22 - All the women left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you: “ ‘They misled you and overcame you— those trusted friends of yours. Your feet are sunk in the mud; your friends have deserted you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 - The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31 - “Arise and attack a nation at ease, which lives in confidence,”

declares the LORD,

“a nation that has neither gates nor bars; its people live far from danger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 - Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 - “ ‘Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - “ ‘Let the sword return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your ancestry, I will judge you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you: “ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown, peopled by men of the sea! You were a power on the seas, you and your citizens; you put your terror on all who lived there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7 - That land will belong to the remnant of the people of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The LORD their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - The LORD Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”
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