Strong's #2507: kathaireo (pronounced kath-ahee-reh'-o)
from 2596 and 138 (including its alternate); to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively):--cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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kathaireō
1) to take down
1a) without the notion of violence: to detach from the cross, one crucified
1b) with the use of force: to throw down, cast down
2) to pull down, demolish
2a) the subtle reasonings (of opponents) likened to a fortress, i.e. to refute, to destroy
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G2596 and G138 (including its alternate)
Citing in TDNT: 3:411, 380
Usage:
This word is used 9 times:
Mark 15:36: "Let alone; let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down."
Mark 15:46: "he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen,"
Luke 1:52: " He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree."
Luke 12:18: "he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build"
Luke 23:53: "And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid"
Acts 13:19: "And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot."
Acts 13:29: "that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid"
Acts 19:27: "should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed,"
2 Corinthians 10:5: " Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the"