2507. kathaireó

Strong's Lexicon

kathaireó: To take down, to destroy, to demolish, to dethrone

Original Word: καθαιρέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: kathaireó
Pronunciation: kath-ah-ee-reh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ahee-reh'-o)
Definition: To take down, to destroy, to demolish, to dethrone
Meaning: (a) I take down, pull down, depose, destroy.

Word Origin: From κατά (kata, meaning "down") and αἱρέω (haireó, meaning "to take" or "to choose")

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - H2040 (הָרַס, haras): To tear down, to destroy

- H3381 (יָרַד, yarad): To go down, to descend

Usage: The verb καθαιρέω (kathaireó) primarily means to take down or demolish. It is used in the New Testament to describe the act of physically taking down structures or metaphorically dismantling arguments or strongholds. The term can also imply the act of dethroning or removing from power.

Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, the concept of taking down or demolishing was often associated with military conquests, where cities and fortifications were physically torn down. Philosophically, it could also refer to the dismantling of ideas or arguments. In the Jewish context, the destruction of idols or false altars was a significant religious act, aligning with the biblical theme of removing anything that stands against the knowledge of God.

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 Origin
from kata and haireó
Definition
to take down, pull down
NASB Translation
brought down (1), destroyed (1), destroying (1), dethroned (1), take...down (1), tear down (1), took...down (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2507: καθαιρέω

καθαιρέω, 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 Exhaustive Concordance

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

Forms and Transliterations

καθαιρεθή καθαιρεθήσεται καθαιρεθήσονται καθαιρεθώσι καθαιρείν καθαιρεισθαι καθαιρείσθαι καθαιρεῖσθαι καθαιρείτέ καθαιρούντα καθαιρουντες καθαιρούντες καθαιροῦντες καθαίρω καθείλαν καθείλε καθειλεν καθείλεν καθεῖλεν καθείλες καθείλον καθείλοσαν καθελεί καθελειν καθελείν καθελεῖν καθελείς καθέλεις καθελείτε καθέλης καθέλοι καθελοντες καθελόντες καθελούσι καθελούσιν καθελω καθελώ καθελῶ καθελων καθελών καθελὼν καθηρέθη καθηρέθης καθηρημένα καθηρημένας καθηρημένους καθηρημένων kathaireisthai kathaireîsthai kathairountes kathairoûntes katheilen katheîlen kathelein katheleîn kathelo kathelô kathelō kathelō̂ kathelon kathelōn kathelṑn kathelontes kathelóntes

Englishman's Concordance

Mark 15:36 V-ANA
GRK: ἔρχεται Ἠλίας καθελεῖν αὐτόν
NAS: Elijah will come to take Him down.
KJV: to take him down.
INT: comes Elijah to take down him

Mark 15:46 V-APA-NMS
GRK: ἀγοράσας σινδόνα καθελὼν αὐτὸν ἐνείλησεν
NAS: cloth, took Him down, wrapped
KJV: and took him down, and wrapped
INT: having bought a linen cloth having taken down him he wrapped [him] in

Luke 1:52 V-AIA-3S
GRK: καθεῖλεν δυνάστας ἀπὸ
NAS: He has brought down rulers
KJV: He hath put down the mighty from
INT: He put down rulers from

Luke 12:18 V-FIA-1S
GRK: Τοῦτο ποιήσω καθελῶ μου τὰς
NAS: is what I will do: I will tear down my barns
KJV: will I do: I will pull down my
INT: This will I do I will take away my the

Luke 23:53 V-APA-NMS
GRK: καὶ καθελὼν ἐνετύλιξεν αὐτὸ
NAS: And he took it down and wrapped
KJV: he took it down, and wrapped it
INT: And having taken it down he wrapped it

Acts 13:19 V-APA-NMS
GRK: καὶ καθελὼν ἔθνη ἑπτὰ
NAS: When He had destroyed seven nations
KJV: And when he had destroyed seven
INT: And having destroyed nations seven

Acts 13:29 V-APA-NMP
GRK: αὐτοῦ γεγραμμένα καθελόντες ἀπὸ τοῦ
NAS: concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross
KJV: him, they took [him] down from
INT: him had been written having taken [him] down from the

Acts 19:27 V-PNM/P
GRK: τε καὶ καθαιρεῖσθαι τῆς μεγαλειότητος
NAS: will even be dethroned from her magnificence.
KJV: should be destroyed, whom
INT: and also to be destroyed the majesty

2 Corinthians 10:5 V-PPA-NMP
GRK: λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες καὶ πᾶν
NAS: [We are] destroying speculations
KJV: Casting down imaginations, and
INT: arguments overthrowing and every

Strong's Greek 2507
9 Occurrences

καθαιρεῖσθαι — 1 Occ.
καθαιροῦντες — 1 Occ.
καθεῖλεν — 1 Occ.
καθελεῖν — 1 Occ.
καθελῶ — 1 Occ.
καθελὼν — 3 Occ.
καθελόντες — 1 Occ.