Lexicon kathaireó: to take down, pull down Original Word: καθαιρέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: kathaireó Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ahee-reh'-o) Short Definition: I take down, depose, destroy Definition: (a) I take down, pull down, depose, destroy. HELPS word-Studies 2507 kathairéō (from 2596 /katá, "down" and 138 /hairéomai, "to choose, make one's own") – properly, take down for oneself ("take for oneself"), i.e. forcibly yank down; destroy, leaving nothing "standing" or even in good working order; cast down. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kata and haireóDefinitionto take down, pull down NASB Translationbrought down (1), destroyed (1), destroying (1), dethroned (1), take...down (1), tear down (1), took...down (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2507: καθαιρέωκαθαιρέω, καθαίρω; future καθελῶ ( Luke 12:18 (see ἀφαιρέω, at the beginning)); 2 aorist καθεῖλον (from the obsolete έ῾λω); present passive καθαιροῦμαι; from Homer down; the Sept. for הורִיד, to cause to go down; הָרַס, נָתַץ, פָּרַץ; 1. to take down: without the notion of violence, τινα, to detach from the cross one crucified, Mark 15:36, 46; Luke 23:53 (Polybius 1, 86, 6; Philo in Flacc. § 10); τινα ἀπό τοῦ ξύλου, Acts 13:23 (the Sept. Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:27); with the use of force, to throw down, cast down: τινα ἀπό θρόνου, Luke 1:52. 2. to pull down, demolish: τάς ἀποθήκας, opposed to οἰκοδομεῖν, Luke 12:18; λογισμούς, the (subtle) reasonings (of opponents) likened to fortresses, equivalent to to refute, 2 Corinthians 10:4 (5); to destroy, ἔθνη, Acts 13:19 (Jeremiah 24:6; Thucydides 1, 4; Aelian v. h. 2, 25); τήν μεγαλειότητα τίνος, Acts 19:27, where if preference is given (with L T Tr WH) to the reading τῆς μεγαλειότητος αὐτῆς, it must be taken as a partitive genitive somewhat of her magnificence; cf. Buttmann, 158 (138) note (so Meyer; cf. Xenophon, Hell. 4, 4, 13. Al. translate that she should even be deposed from her magnificence; cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 6; Buttmann, § 132, 5).
Strong's cast down, destroy. From kata and haireomai (including its alternate); to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively) -- cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy. see GREEK kata see GREEK haireomai |
