Lexicon katabasis: Descent, going down Original Word: κατάβασις Strong's Exhaustive Concordance descent. From katabaino; a declivity -- descent. see GREEK katabaino NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom katabainó Definition descent NASB Translation descent (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2600: κατάβασιςκατάβασις, καταβάσεως, ἡ (καταβαίνω) (from Herodotus down), descent; a. the act of descending. b. the place of descent: τοῦ ὄρους, i. e. that part of the mountain where the descent is made, Luke 19:37; so Joshua 10:11 the Sept.; Diodorus 4, 21; opposed to ἀνάβασις, the place of ascent way up, 1 Macc. 3:16, 24; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 2, 3. So Latindescensus; cf. Herzog on Sall. Cat. 57, 3. |
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