katabolē · foundation

What it means

katabolē (καταβολή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “foundation”.

Beginning.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The beginning of the world.
2. Being able to conceive a child.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• foundation ×10
• beget ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Ephesians×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 13:35

  so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, when he says, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will pour out things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

• Matthew 25:34

  Then the King will say to those at his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

• Luke 11:50

  so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

• John 17:24

  Father, as for what you have given me, I want them also to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

• Ephesians 1:4

  just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world for us to be holy and without blemish before him in love,

• Hebrews 4:3

  For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said: So I swore in my wrath: They will not enter into my rest; although the works had been finished from the foundation of the world.

• Hebrews 9:26

  for then it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once at the end of the ages he has been revealed for the setting aside of sin by his sacrifice.

• Hebrews 11:11

  By faith he also received power to beget, together with Sarah herself, even beyond the time of their age, since he considered faithful the one who had promised.

• 1 Peter 1:20

  He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the times for the sake of you,

• Revelation 13:8

  And all who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world.

• Revelation 17:8

  The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and goes to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and will be present.