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Lexicon :: Strong's G2702 - katapherō

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καταφέρω
Transliteration
katapherō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-af-er'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) and φέρω (G5342) (including its alternate)
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Strong’s Definitions

καταφέρω kataphérō, kat-af-er'-o; from G2596 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote:—fall, give, sink down.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2702 in the following manner: fall (1x), sink down (1x), give (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2702 in the following manner: fall (1x), sink down (1x), give (1x).

  1. to bear down, bring down, cast down

    1. to cast a pebble or calculus into the urn

      1. to give one's vote, to approve

    2. to be born down, to sink, (from the window to the pavement)

    3. metaph.

      1. to be weighted down by, overcome, carried away

      2. to sink into sleep, drop asleep

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταφέρω kataphérō, kat-af-er'-o; from G2596 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote:—fall, give, sink down.
STRONGS G2702:
καταφέρω; 1 aorist κατήνεγκα; passive, present καταφέρομαι; 1 aorist κατηνεχθην; (from Homer down); to bear down, bring down, cast down: ψῆφον, properly, to cast a pebble or calculus namely, into the urn, i. e. to give one's vote, to approve, Acts 26:10; αἰτιώματα κατά τίνος (see κατά, I. 2 b. (but the critical editions reject κατά κτλ.)), Acts 25:7 L T Tr WH. Passive, to be borne down, to sink (from the window to the pavement), ἀπό τοῦ ὕπνου, from sleep (from the effect of his deep sleep (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348))), Acts 20:9b; metaphorically, to be weighed down by, overcome, carried away, καταφερόμενος ὕπνῳ βάθει, sunk in a deep sleep, Acts 20:9a; of a different sort (contra Winer's Grammar, 431 (401)) is the expression in secular authors, καταφέρομαι εἰς ὕπνον, to sink into sleep, drop asleep, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 5; Herodian, 2, 1, 3 (2); 9, 6 (5); τοισιν ὑπνοισιν, Hipp., p. 1137 c. ((Kühn iii., p. 539)), and in the same sense simply καταφέρομαι; cf. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2 d.); Stephanus' Thesaurus 4 col. 1286 (where the passage from Acts is fully discussed).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
20:9; 20:9; 25:7; 26:10

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Strong's Number G2702 matches the Greek καταφέρω (katapherō),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the LXX Greek.

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These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

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“They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the LORD our God is giving us is good.’

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“and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

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“We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.

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So King Solomon sent for him, and they took him down from the altar. He came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your home.”

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The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent.

He rebukes them, and they flee far away,

driven before the wind like chaff on the hills

and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

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Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one —

like a devastating hail storm,

like a storm with strong flooding water.

He will bring it across the land with his hand.

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Next he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate that faced east; there the water was trickling from the south side.

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“But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

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The mountains will melt beneath him,

and the valleys will split apart,

like wax near a fire,

like water cascading down a mountainside.

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