Kathairéō — G2507

Definition

verb

to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively)

1. to take down
2. to pull down, demolish

Usually translated as

down, cast, destroy

Origin

from G2596 and G138 (including its alternate)

• katá (G2596)
• hairéomai (G138)

Occurrences

Kathairéō occurs 9 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Mark (2), Luke (3), Acts (3), 2 Corinthians (1)

• Mark 15:36 — And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down (καθελεῖν).
• Mark 15:46 — And he bought fine linen, and took him down (καθελὼν), and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
• Luke 1:52 — He hath put down (καθεῖλεν) the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
• Luke 12:18 — And he said, This will I do: I will pull down (καθελῶ) my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
• Luke 23:53 — And he took it down (καθελὼν), and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
• Acts 13:19 — And when he had destroyed (καθελὼν) seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
• Acts 13:29 — And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down (καθελόντες) from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
• Acts 19:27 — So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed (καθαιρεῖσθαι), whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
• 2 Corinthians 10:5 — Casting down (καθαιρουντες) imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;