κατά
kata
κατά (bef. a vowel κατ᾽, καθ᾽; on the frequently neglect of elision, see Tdf., Pr., 95; WH, App., 146a),
prep. with genitive, accusative,
down, downwards.
I. C. genitive (WM, §47, k; Bl., §42, 2).
1. C. genitive of thing(s), in local sense;
(a) down, down from: Mat.8:32, Mrk.5:13, Luk.8:33, 1Co.11:4;
(b) throughout (late usage; Bl, l.with): κ. ὅλης κ.τ.λ., Luk.4:14 23:5, Act.9:31 10:37;
(c) in a peculiar adjectival phrase: ἡ κ. βάθους, deep or extreme poverty, 2Co.8:2.
2. C. genitive of person(s), usually in hostile sense;
(a) against (in cl. only after verbs of speaking, witnessing, etc.): opposite to ὑπέρ, Mrk.9:40; μετά, Mat.12:30; after ἐπιθυμεῖν, Gal.5:17; λαλεῖν, Act.6:13; διδάσκειν, Act.21:28; ψεύδεσθαι, Jas.3:14; after verbs of accusing, etc., Mat.5:23, Luk.23:14, Rom.8:33, al.; verbs of fighting, prevailing, etc., Mat.10:35, Act.14:2, 1Co.4:6, al.;
(b) of swearing, by: όμνυμι κ. (BL, §34, 1), He 6:13,16, cf. Mat.26:63.
II. C. accusative (WM, §49d; BL, §42, 2).
1. Of motion or direction;
(a) through, throughout: Luk.8:39 9:6 10:4, Act.8:1, 36 al.;
(b) to, towards, over against: Luk.10:32 (Field, Notes, 62), Act.2:1o 16:7, Gal.2:11, Php.3:14, al.;
(c) in adverbial phrases, at, in, by, of: κατ᾽ οἶκον, at home, Act.2:46; κατ᾽ ἰδίαν (see: ἴδιος); καθ᾽ ἑαυτόν, Act.28:16, Rom.14:22, Jas.2:17; with pron. of person(s), Act.17:28 18:15, Rom.1:15, Eph.1:15, al.
2. Of time, at, during, about: Act.8:26 12:1 19:23, Rom.9:9 Heb.1:10, al.
3. Distributive;
(a) of place: κ. τόποὐς, Mat.24:7, al.; κ. πόλιν, Luk.8:1, 4 al.; κ. ἐκκλησίαν, Act.14:23.
(b) of time: κ. ἔτος, Luk.2:41; ἑορτήν, Mat.27:15, al.;
(c) of numbers, etc.: καθ᾽ ἕνα πάντες, 1Co.14:31 (on καθ᾽ εἷς, see: εἷς); κ. ἑκατόν, Mrk.6:40; κ. μέρος, Heb.9:5; κ. ὄνομα, Jhn.10:3.
4. Of fitness, reference, conformity, etc.;
(a) in relation to, concerning: Rom.1:3, 4 7:22 9:3, 5, 1Co.12:6 10:18, Php.1:12; κ. πάντα, Act.17:22, Col.3:20, 22 Heb.2:17 4:15;
(b) according to, after, like: Mrk.7:5, Luk.2:27, 29 Jhn.7:24 Rom.8:4 14:15, Eph.2:2, Col.2:8, Jas.2:8, al.
III. In composition, κ. denotes,
1. down, down from (καταβαίνω), etc.), hence, metaphorically;
(a) victory or rule over (καταδουλόω, -κυριεύω, etc.);
(b) "perfective" action (M, Pr., 111ff.).
2. under (κατακαλύπτω), etc.).
3. in succession (καθεξῆς).
4. after, behind (καταλείπω).
5. Hostility, against (καταλαλέω).
(AS)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 430 verses
- John 8:9 καθ‿
When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
- John 8:15 κατὰ
You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
- John 10:3 κατ’
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
- John 18:29 κατὰ
So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?”
- John 18:31 κατὰ
“You take Him and judge Him by your own law,” Pilate told them. “We are not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews replied.
- John 19:7 κατὰ
“We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
- John 19:11 κατ’
Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
- John 21:25 καθ’
There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.
- Acts 2:10 κατὰ
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome,
- Acts 2:46 Καθ’κατ’
With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
- Acts 2:47 καθ’
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
- Acts 3:2 καθ’
And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
- Acts 3:13 κατὰ
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
- Acts 3:17 κατὰ
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
- Acts 3:22 κατὰ
For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 4:26 κατὰκατὰ
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
- Acts 5:42 κατ’
Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.
- Acts 6:13 κατὰ
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
- Acts 7:44 κατὰ
Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
- Acts 8:1 κατὰ
And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
- Acts 8:3 κατὰ
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.
- Acts 8:26 κατὰ
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
- Acts 8:36 κατὰ
As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
- Acts 9:31 καθ’
Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 9:42 καθ’
This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.
- Acts 10:37 καθ’
You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:
- Acts 11:1 κατὰ
The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
- Acts 12:1 Κατ’
About that time, King Herod reached out to harm some who belonged to the church.
- Acts 13:1 κατὰ
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
- Acts 13:22 κατὰ
After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’
- Acts 13:23 κατ’
From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.
- Acts 13:27 κατὰ
The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
- Acts 14:1 κατὰ
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
- Acts 14:2 κατὰ
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
- Acts 14:23 κατ’
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
- Acts 15:11 καθ’
On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
- Acts 15:21 κατὰκατὰ
For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
- Acts 15:23 κατὰ
and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
- Acts 15:36 κατὰ
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- Acts 16:5 καθ’
So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
- Acts 16:7 κατὰ
And when they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not permit them.
- Acts 16:22 κατ’
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered that they be stripped and beaten with rods.
- Acts 16:25 Κατὰ
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
- Acts 17:2 κατὰ
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
- Acts 17:11 καθ’
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
- Acts 17:17 κατὰ
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.
- Acts 17:22 κατὰ
Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious.
- Acts 17:28 καθ’
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- Acts 18:4 κατὰ
Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
- Acts 18:14 κατὰ
But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio told the Jews, “If this matter involved a wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to hear your complaint.
