noun · neuter
katastēmem
Strong’sG2688
behavior, conduct
stem katastēm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
**† κατά-στημα, -τος, τό
(καθίστημι), [in LXX: III Mac 5:45 (-εμα, A)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2688 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-as'-tay-mah
properly, a position or condition, i.e. (subjectively) demeanor
Fromfrom G2525;
King Jamesbehaviour.
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
later κατάστεμα LXX:— condition, state, not necessarily permanent:
1 bodily or mental condition, Refs 3rd c.BC+ [prev. cited]
2 weather, Refs 1st c.BC+; direction of wind, Refs 3rd c.AD+; time, season, Refs 2nd c.AD+.
3 demeanour, behaviour, Ep. Tit.Refs 1st c.AD+; τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας, τῆς ἀρετῆς κ., Aristeas Refs.
4 political condition, constitution, Refs 2nd c.BC+
5 generally, state of the case, state of affairs, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 Astrology texts, position of the heavens, Refs
7 physical constitution, τὸ κοσμικὸν κ., i.e. the four elements and four winds, Refs 5th c.AD+; of the Intelligible World, Refs 6th c.AD+.
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 or object direct | katastēmem | katastēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | katastēmeu | katastēmeiu |
| to, for dative | katastēme1×καταστήματι | katastēmei |
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
katastēme 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
katastēme“behavior”to, fordative singular1×
Titus 2:3Presbutiain hōsautōs en katastēme hieroprepain, mē diabolain mēde oino pollo …… are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much …