adverb
katō
Strong’sG2736
down, below, lower, under, less
stem katō-10 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 booksnever changes form
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.
κάτω,
adv.(< κατά), [in LXX for מַטָּה, מִתַּחַת and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2736 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
adverb, (κατά):
I with Verbs implying Motion, downwards, ἐπισκύνιον κ. ἕλκεται Refs 8th c.BC+; especially of the nether world, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. βλέπειν, φέρεσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; κ. διεχώρει αὐτοῖς they suffered from diarrhoea, Refs 5th c.BC+; φάρμακον πῖσαι κ. give a purgative, Refs; κ. βοηθεῖν go down to help, Refs 4th c.BC+; for ἄνω καὶ κάτω, ἄνω κάτω, etc., see at {ἄνω} (B) Refs 4th c.BC+
I.2 downwards, in a chain of causes, ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἰέναι Refs 4th c.BC+
I.3 with genitive, down from, πετρῶν ὦσαι κ. Refs 5th c.BC+.
II with Verbs implying Rest (so more frequently in Prose), beneath, below, opposed to ἄνω, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.b in the world below, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; οἱ κ. the dead, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.c geographically below, southward, Refs 5th c.BC+; also κ. οἰκεῖν to dwell on the coast, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ. κ. Γαλατία lower Galatia, Plu Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.d in the race-course, τὰ κ. the starting-place, opposed to τὰ ἄνω (the goal), Refs 5th c.BC+
II.e τὰ κ. τῶν μελῶν the lower limbs of the body, Refs; ἡ κ. κοιλία, opposed to ἡ ἄνω, Refs 4th c.BC+; περὶ τὰ κ. χωρεῖν miscarry, fail, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.f of Time, afterwards, later, Refs 1st c.AD+; οἱ κ., opposed to οἱ πάλαι, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τοῦ χρόνου κ. later in time, Refs 2nd c.AD+; compare ἄνω (B) Refs 4th c.BC+
II.g in Logic, τὰ κ. the lower members in a descending series of genera and species, Refs 4th c.BC+
III with genitive, under, below, κ. χθονός, γῆς, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV comparative κατωτέρω lower, downwards, Refs 5th c.BC+: with genitive, lower than, below, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.2 superlative κατωτάτω at the lowest part, τὰ κ. Refs 1st 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
10 occurrences, every one of them listed
katō10×
Matthew 4:6… huios asō tou theou, balasar siauton katō; grafotē gar hoti Toi angeloi autou …… of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will …
Matthew 27:51… tou naou schizita apo anōthen heōs katō eis duo, kai tas gēas seiita, …… torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, and the rocks …
Mark 14:66Kai arōntou tou Petrou katō en ta aula erchotō henas taiu …While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the servant girls of …
Mark 15:38… schizita eis duo apo anōthen heōs katō.… torn in two from top to bottom.
Luke 4:9… asō tou theou, balasar siauton enteuthen katō;… of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.
John 8:6… echaleiō katēgorarō autou. tos de Iēsus katō kuptarantos to daktulo grafate eis tan …… for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the …
John 8:8“having stooped down”kai palin katō kuptarantos grafate eis tan gēan.And again He bent down and wrote on the ground.
John 8:23kai legate autoi; Vis ek teiu katō avō, mis ek teiu anō amō; …… He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are …
Acts 2:19… anō kai sēmeim epi tau gēau katō, haimem kai purem kai atmidan kapnou;… above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of …
Acts 20:9“down”… tou hupnou piptata apo teu tristegeu katō kai airita nekros.… asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.