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Strong's #2597: katabaino (pronounced kat-ab-ah'-ee-no)

from 2596 and the base of 939; to descend (literally or figuratively):--come (get, go, step) down, fall (down).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katabainō

1) to go down, come down, descend

1a) the place from which one has come down from

1b) to come down

1b1) as from the temple at Jerusalem, from the city of Jerusalem

1b2) of celestial beings coming down to earth

1c) to be cast down

2) of things

2a) to come (i.e. be sent) down

2b) to come (i.e. fall) down

2b1) from the upper regions of the air

3) metaphorically to (go, i.e.) be cast down to the lowest state of wretchedness and shame

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2596 and the base of G939

Citing in TDNT: 1:522, 90




Usage:

This word is used 80 times:

Acts 8:38: "chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water,"
Acts 10:11: "and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great"
Acts 10:20: "Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting"
Acts 10:21: "Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto"
Acts 11:5: "a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down"
Acts 14:11: "in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men."
Acts 14:25: "word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:"
Acts 16:8: "And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas."
Acts 18:22: "saluted the church, he went down to Antioch."
Acts 20:10: "And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said,"
Acts 23:10: "commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among"
Acts 24:1: "Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and"
Acts 24:22: "When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttmost of your matter."
Acts 25:6: "than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day"
Acts 25:7: "was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid"
Romans 10:7: "Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again"
Ephesians 4:9: "it but that he also descended first into the lower"
Ephesians 4:10: " He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens,"
1 Thessalonians 4:16: "the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,"
James 1:17: "gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,"
Revelation 3:12: "which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my"
Revelation 10:1: "another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud:"
Revelation 12:12: "sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having"
Revelation 13:13: "he maketh fire come down from heaven on the"
Revelation 16:21: "And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven,"
Revelation 18:1: "I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great"
Revelation 20:1: "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the"
Revelation 20:9: "compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down"
Revelation 21:2: "city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,"
Revelation 21:10: "city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from"









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