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Strong's #2600 - κατάβασις

Transliteration
katábasis
Phonetics
kat-ab'-as-is
Origin
from (G2597)
Parts of Speech
Noun Feminine
TDNT
None
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. descent
    1. the act of descending
    2. the place of descent
      1. that part of the mountain where the descent is made
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

κατά-βᾰσις, εως, ἡ,

opp. ἀνάβασις,

1. way down, descent, Hdt. 1.186 (pl.), 7.223, etc.; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου κ. Isoc. 10.20, Str. 8.6.12, cf. Hdt. 2.122; title of work by Dicaearchus, Cic. Att. 13.31.2; cf. καταίβασις.

2. descent from central Asia, X. An. 5.5.4; ἡ ἐπὶ θάλατταν κ. D.S. 14.25.

3. metaph., descent of an idea into the mind, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.242.

4. steep ground, declivity, Demetr. Eloc. 248 (pl.).

5. ἔργον καταβάσεως hanging work, LXX 3 Ki. 7.16(29).

Thayer's Expanded Definition

κατάβασις, καταβάσεως, (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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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

κατα -βαρύνω ,

[in LXX: 2 Samuel 13:25; 2 Samuel 14:26 (H3513), Joel 2:8, Sirach 8:15*;]

= καταβαρέω G2599: pass., Pres. ptcp., Mark 14:40.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

In P Grenf II. 67.15 (A.D. 237) in connexion with a village festival three asses are provided for the conveyance of certain dancing girls ";down and back again";—ὑπὲρ καταβάσεως καὶ ἀναβάσεως.

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
καταβασει καταβάσει καταβάσεως κατάβασιν κατεβιάζετο κατεβιάζοντο κατεβιάσατο katabasei katabásei
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