noun · feminine
katastolas
Strong’sG2689
garb, dress, attire
stem katastol-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-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< καταστέλλω), [in LXX: Is 61:3 (מַעֲטֶה)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2689 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-as-tol-ay'
a deposit, i.e. (specially) costume
Fromfrom G2687;
King Jamesapparel.
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
equipment, dress, NT+1st c.AD+.
II putting down, checking, Refs 1st c.BC+; reduction, subjugation, Ηβαΐδος Wilcken Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 modesty, reserve, Refs 5th c.BC+; moderation, κ. περιβολῆς in dress, Refs 1st c.AD+, dignity, restraint, Refs 2nd c.BC+ (Sardes, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.3 conclusion, 'finale', Mim.Oxy.Refs 5th c.BC+; remission, Refs 4th 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 nominative | katastolas | katastolais |
| object accusative | katastolan | katastolain |
| direct address vocative | katastolar | katastolair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katastolau | katastolaiu |
| to, for dative | katastola1×καταστολῇ | katastolai |
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
katastola 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
katastola“clothing”to, fordative singular1×
1 Timothy 2:9“clothing”hōsautōs kai gunaikain en katastola kosmia meta aidōau kai sōfrosunau kosmarō …Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control …