noun · feminine
katabasias
Strong’sG2600
descent
stem katabasi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† κατα-βαρύνω,
[in LXX: II Ki 13:25 14:26 (כּבד), Jl 2:8, Si 8:15*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2600 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-ab'-as-is
a declivity
Fromfrom G2597;
King Jamesdescent.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
opposed to ἀνάβασις, way down, descent, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου κ. Refs 5th c.BC+; title of work by Dicaearchus, Refs 1st c.BC+; compare καταίβασις.
2 descent from central Asia, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐπὶ θάλατταν κ. Refs 1st c.BC+
3 metaphorically, descent of an idea into the mind, Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 steep ground, declivity, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 ἔργον καταβάσεως hanging work, LXX
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | katabasias | katabasiais |
| object accusative | katabasian | katabasiain |
| direct address vocative | katabasiar | katabasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katabasiau | katabasiaiu |
| to, for dative | katabasia1×καταβάσει | katabasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
katabasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
katabasia“descent”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 19:37engizarōntou de autou ēdē pros ta katabasia teu Oreu taiu Elaiaiu archela hapantem …And as He approached the descent from the Mount of Olives, the …