katōterem

Strong’sG2737

lower

stem katōter-once in the New Testament0 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.

κατώτερος, -έρα, -ερον

(< κάτω), [in LXX for תַּחְתּוֹן, תַּחְתִּי;]

lower; τὰ. κ. τῆς γῆς (v. AR, Eph 4:9; for rendering this lower earth, v. ICC, Eph 4:9), the lower parts of the earth (cf. Ps 138 (139):15; cf. also MGr., ἡ κάτου γῆ, the underworld, Thumb, MGV, 334): Eph 4:9.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2737 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-o'-ter-os

inferior (locally, of Hades)

Fromcomparative from G2736;

King Jameslower.

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

κατώτερος, α, ον,
comparative adjective from κάτω, lower, NT+5th c.BC+; more southerly, Refs
2 of Time, later, younger, Refs 3rd c.BC+ adverb κατωτέρω, see at {κάτω}.

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.

lower1×

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	katōteros	katōteras	katōterem	katōterois	katōterais	katōtereim
object accusative	katōteron	katōteran		katōteroin	katōterain
direct address vocative	katōteror	katōterar		katōteroir	katōterair
of, belonging to genitive	katōterou	katōterau	katōtereu	katōteroiu	katōteraiu	katōtereiu
to, for dative	katōtero	katōtera	katōtere	katōteroi	katōterai	katōterei

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

katōterstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

katōter 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

katōtereim1×

Ephesians 4:9… mē hoti kai katabainata eis teim katōtereim mereim tau gēau?… that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?