noun · feminine
kathairesias
Strong’sG2506
taking down, destroying
stem kathairesi-3 times 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.
καθ-αίρεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< καθαιρέω), [in LXX: Ex 23:24 (הָרֵס), I Mac 3:43*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2506 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkath-ah'-ee-res-is
demolition; figuratively, extinction
Fromfrom G2507;
King Jamesdestruction, pulling down.
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
pulling down, demolition, NT+5th c.BC+; ἀναστήσωμεν τὴν κ. τοῦ λαοῦ ἡμῶν LXX the débris, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 generally, overthrow, subjugation, Refs 2nd c.AD+; killing, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 reduction, diminution, opposed to πρόσθεσις, Refs 4th c.BC+: in Medicine texts, bringing down superfluous flesh, lowering, reducing, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 eclipse of sun or moon (with reference to the magical process of drawing down those bodies), Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | kathairesias | kathairesiais |
| object accusative | kathairesian3×καθαίρεσιν | kathairesiain |
| direct address vocative | kathairesiar | kathairesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kathairesiau | kathairesiaiu |
| to, for dative | kathairesia | kathairesiai |
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
kathairesia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
kathairesian“destroy”objectaccusative singular3×
2 Corinthians 10:4“destroy”… sarkikeim alla dunateim to theo pros kathairesian ochurōmeiu logismoin kathairarōntois… the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:8… kurios eis oikodoman kai ouk eis kathairesian vu, ouk aischunimi,… for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.
2 Corinthians 13:10“tearing down”… mi, eis oikodoman kai ouk eis kathairesian.… Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you …