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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 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we shall spend the night in the public square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - and he said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to stay overnight at your father’s house?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to stay overnight.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac departed from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and [fn]settled there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - But when one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed at the overnight campsite, he saw his money; and behold, it was in the opening of his sack!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21 - and it happened when we came to the campsite, that we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the opening of his sack, our money in [fn]full. So we have brought it back in our hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - And he said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will bring word back to you just as the LORD may speak to me.” And the leaders of Moab stayed with Balaam.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 -

While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to commit infidelity with the daughters of Moab.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:1 -

Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and rested there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 -

Then Joshua got up early in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they spent the night there before they crossed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man got up to go, along with his concubine and servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold now, the day has drawn [fn]to a close; please spend the night. Behold, the day is [fn]coming to an end; spend the night here so that your heart may be cheerful. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey and go [fn]home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:15 - They turned aside there to enter and spend the night in Gibeah. When [fn]they entered, [fn]they sat down in the public square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - Then the old man said, “Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the public square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came with my concubine to spend the night at Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed is the LORD who has not left you without a redeemer today, and may his name [fn]become famous in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Then Hushai said, “You yourself know your father and his men, that they are warriors and they are [fn]fierce, like a bear deprived of her cubs in the field. And your father is an [fn]expert in warfare, and he will not spend the night with the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 -

Then he came there to a cave and spent the night there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:8 -

The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss any of the divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - ‘But because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 -

From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established [fn]strength

Because of Your enemies,

To do away with the enemy and the revengeful.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44 -

You have put an end to his [fn]splendor

And cast his throne to the ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:12 -

“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;

As a weaver I rolled up my life.

He cuts me off from the loom;

From day until night You make an end of me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:7 -

“Why should I forgive you?

Your sons have forsaken Me

And sworn by those who are not gods.

When I had fed them to the full,

They committed adultery

And stayed at the prostitute’s house.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will eliminate from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a site of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:24 - and to all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign [fn]people who live in the desert;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:22 - ‘Behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,

[fn]Your close friends

Have misled and overpowered you;

While your feet were sunk in the mire,

They turned back.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:16 -

“As for the terror you cause,

The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,

You who live in the clefts of [fn]the rock,

Who occupy the height of the hill.

Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,

I will bring you down from there,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31 -

“Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease,

Which lives securely,” declares the LORD.

“It has no gates or bars;

They dwell alone.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:43 -

“Her cities have become an object of horror,

A dry land and a desert,

A land in which no one lives

And through which no [fn]one of mankind passes.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 -

The joy of our hearts has ended;

Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 -

“Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [fn]you were at the time for love; so I spread My [fn]garment over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares the Lord GOD.

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.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - “And the [fn]Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, [fn]she turned away from them in disgust.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:13 - “So I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:17 - “And they will take up a song of mourning over you and say to you,

‘How you have perished, you inhabited one,

From the seas, you famous city,

Which was mighty on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who imposed [fn]her terror

On all her inhabitants!

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:7 -

And the coast will be

For the remnant of the house of Judah,

They will drive sheep to pasture on it.

In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening;

For the LORD their God will care for them

And restore their fortunes.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - “I will make it go forth,” declares the LORD of armies, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and destroy it with its timber and stones.”
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