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Lexicon :: Strong's G2666 - katapinō

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καταπίνω
Transliteration
katapinō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ap-ee'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:158,841

Strong’s Definitions

καταπίνω katapínō, kat-ap-ee'-no; from G2596 and G4095; to drink down, i.e. gulp entire (literally or figuratively):—devour, drown, swallow (up).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G2666 in the following manner: swallow (4x), swallow (1x), drown (1x), devour (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G2666 in the following manner: swallow (4x), swallow (1x), drown (1x), devour (1x).
  1. to drink down, swallow down

  2. to devour

  3. to swallow up, destroy

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταπίνω katapínō, kat-ap-ee'-no; from G2596 and G4095; to drink down, i.e. gulp entire (literally or figuratively):—devour, drown, swallow (up).
STRONGS G2666:
καταπίνω; 2 aorist κατέπιον; 1 aorist passive κατεπόθην; (from Hesiod and Herodotus down); properly, to drink down, swallow down: Matthew 23:24; Revelation 12:16; to devour, 1 Peter 5:8 (here Tr καταπιεῖν by mistake; (see πίνω, at the beginning)); to swallow up, destroy, passive, 1 Corinthians 15:54; 2 Corinthians 5:4; Hebrews 11:29; tropically, λύπη καταποθῆναι, to be consumed with grief, 2 Corinthians 2:7.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
23:24
1 Corinthians
15:54
2 Corinthians
2:7; 5:4
Hebrews
11:29
1 Peter
5:8
Revelation
12:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2666 matches the Greek καταπίνω (katapinō),
which occurs 36 times in 36 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - and the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. So I told it to the [fn]magicians, but there was no one who could declare it to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - And each one threw down his staff, and they became [fn]serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:12 -

“You stretched out Your right hand,

The earth swallowed them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - “But if Yahweh creates an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they go down to Sheol alive, then you will know that these men have spurned Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - Then all Israel who were around them fled at their [fn]outcry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:28 -

“For a fire went forth from Heshbon,

A flame from the town of Sihon;

It devoured Ar of Moab,

The [fn]dominant [fn]heights of the Arnon.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 -

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that congregation died, when the fire consumed 250 men, so that they became a [fn]warning.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that [fn]followed them, among all Israel
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:16 - “So now, send quickly and inform David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 -

[fn]Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,

Nor let me alone until I swallow my spit?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:18 -

“If He swallows him up from his place,

Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:25 -

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”

Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:9 -

Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the living and the burning alike.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -

May the [fn]flood of water not overflow me

Nor the deep swallow me up,

Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:17 -

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

And covered up the [fn]company of Abiram.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27 -

They staggered and swayed like a drunken man,

And all their wisdom was swallowed up.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 124:3 -

Then they would have swallowed us alive,

When their anger was kindled against us;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 -

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the cliff,

And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 -

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,

And whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:28 -

A vile witness scoffs at justice,

And the mouth of the wicked swallows up iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:20 -

There is desirable treasure and oil in the abode of the wise,

But a foolish man swallows it up.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:7 -

For as he [fn]calculates in his soul, so he is.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

But his heart is not with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:16 -

For those who guide this people are leading them astray;

And those who are guided by them are [fn]brought to confusion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 -

For the fields of Heshbon have languished, the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:8 -

He will swallow up death for all time,

And Lord Yahweh will wipe tears away from all faces,

And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;

For Yahweh has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 -

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile valley,

Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to summer,

Which [fn]one sees,

And [fn]as soon as it is in his [fn]hand,

He swallows it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 -

“For your [fn]devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land

Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants,

And those who swallowed you will be far away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 -

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and brought me into confusion;

He has set me down like an empty vessel;

He has swallowed me like a sea monster;

He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;

He has rinsed me away.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 -

“I will punish Bel in Babylon,

And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;

And the nations will no longer stream to him.

Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:16 -

Pe

All your enemies

Have opened their mouths wide against you;

They hiss and gnash their teeth.

They say, “We have swallowed her up!

Surely this is the day for which we have hoped;

We have found it, we have seen it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 -

Ayin

My eyes pour down unceasingly,

Without stopping,

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:8 -

Israel is swallowed up;

They are now among the nations

Like a vessel in which no one delights.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:17 -

[fn]And Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:13 -

Your eyes are too pure to see evil,

And You cannot look on trouble.

Why do You look

On those who deal treacherously?

Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up

Those more righteous than they?

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