Lexical Summary katō: down, below Original Word: κάτωTransliteration: katō Phonetic Spelling: (kat'-o;) Part of Speech: Adverb Short Definition: down, below Meaning: down, below Strong's Concordance beneath, bottom, down, under. Also (compare) katotero (kat-o-ter'-o); (compare katoteros); adverb from kata; downwards -- beneath, bottom, down, under. see GREEK katoteros see GREEK kata Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2736: κάτωκάτω (from κατά), adverb (fr. Homer down), comparitive κατωτέρω; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 472 (440)); 1. down, downward: Matthew 4:6; Luke 4:9; John 8:6, 8; Acts 20:9. 2. below, beneath (cf. Winers Grammar, as above); a. of place: Mark 14:66; Acts 2:19; ἕως κάτω (A. V. to the bottom), Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38 (Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2); τά κάτω, the parts or regions that lie beneath (opposed to τά ἄνω, heaven), i. e. the earth, John 8:23. b. of temporal succession: ἀπό διετοῦς καί κατωτέρω, from a child of two years and those that were of a lower age (cf. Winer's Grammar, 370 (347)), Matthew 2:16; ἀπό εἰκοσαετοῦς καί κάτω, 1 Chronicles 27:23. STRONGS NT 2736: κατωτέρωκατωτέρω, see κάτω, especially 2 b. |
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