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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 3 / 6 (Rth 3:6–1Ki 22:2)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:6 - So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:21 - So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim,[fn] where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:8 - Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:20 - But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:37 - And Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:1 - David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:6 - When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8 - And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:11 - Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20 - Now come down, O king, according to all your heart’s desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:25 - And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:7 - So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:20 - And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:24 - Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - “You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fields of offerings![fn]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:17 - When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:9 - But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:16 - And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:20 - For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:24 - And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:31 - Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:15 - There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:10 - He bowed the heavens and came down;
thick darkness was under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:13 - And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:20 - And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man[fn] of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels[fn] of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:25 - For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons, the commanders[fn] of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:38 - So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:8 - And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:32 - He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:16 - And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:18 - “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:2 - But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

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