adjective
katachthonios
Strong’sG2709
under the earth, subterranean
stem katachthoni-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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-χθόνιος, -ον
(< χθών, the earth),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2709 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-akh-thon'-ee-os
subterranean, i.e. infernal (belonging to the world of departed spirits)
Fromfrom G2596 and χθών (the ground);
King Jamesunder the earth.
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
also η, ον Refs 3rd c.BC+:— subterranean, Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος, i.e. Pluto, Refs 8th c.BC+; of Pluto, Demeter, Persephone, and the Erinyes, Refs 4th c.AD+ M.; = Latin Di Manes, Refs; κ.θεοί, = Latin Di Manes, frequently in sepulchral Inscrr., Refs
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | katachthonios | katachthonias | katachthoniem | katachthoniois | katachthoniais | katachthonieim |
| object accusative | katachthonion | katachthonian | katachthonioin | katachthoniain | ||
| direct address vocative | katachthonior | katachthoniar | katachthonioir | katachthoniair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | katachthoniou | katachthoniau | katachthonieu | katachthonioiu1×καταχθονίων | katachthoniaiu | katachthonieiu |
| to, for dative | katachthonio | katachthonia | katachthonie | katachthonioi | katachthoniai | katachthoniei |
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
katachthoni 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
katachthonioiu“under the earth”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Philippians 2:10… gonuem kamptateia epouranoiu kai epigeioiu kai katachthonioiu,… in heaven and on earth and under the earth,