katantaō · arrive, reach

What it means

katantaō (καταντάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “arrive, reach”.

Arrive at a place, come to it; also reach or attain a goal.

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. To end a journey at a city or place.
2. To reach a goal.

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

How it is translated

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

• arrived ×7
• attain ×3
• reach ×2
• have come ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Acts×9
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×1

• Acts 16:1

  And he arrived also at Derbe and at Lystra. And look, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but of a Greek father.

• Acts 18:19

  And they arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

• Acts 18:24

  Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures.

• Acts 20:15

  And from there we sailed and on the following day arrived opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day after we came to Miletus.

• Acts 21:7

  And we, having completed the voyage from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais, and having greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them.

• Acts 25:13

  And when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to greet Festus.

• Acts 26:7

  to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, earnestly serving God night and day; concerning this hope, King, I am accused by Jews.

• Acts 27:12

  And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

• Acts 28:13

  from there weighing anchor we arrived at Rhegium; and after one day a south wind sprang up and on the second day we came to Puteoli,

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our warning, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

• 1 Corinthians 14:36

  Or did the word of God go out from you, or did it reach only you?

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Philippians 3:11

  if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.