katargeō · nullify, abolish

What it means

katargeō (καταργέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “nullify, abolish”.

Make ineffective, nullify, abolish; in the passive, be brought to an end or be released from something.

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 make something powerless.
2. To come to an end, or stop having power over someone.

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

How it is translated

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

• nullify ×4
• will be done away with ×3
• was being set aside ×2
• I did away with ×1
• You have been cut off ×1
• are passing away ×1
• being done away with ×1
• bring to nothing ×1
• has been abolished ×1
• has been nullified ×1
• others ×11

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Romans×6
• 1 Corinthians×9
• 2 Corinthians×4
• Galatians×3
• Ephesians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1

• Luke 13:7

  And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I do not find any. Cut it down; why should it also use up the ground?’

• Romans 3:3

  What then? If some were unfaithful, their unfaithfulness will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

• Romans 3:31

  Do we then nullify the law through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

• Romans 4:14

  For if those of the law are heirs, faith has been made empty and the promise has been nullified.

• Romans 6:6

  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer serve as slaves to sin;

• Romans 7:2

  For the married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband.

• Romans 7:6

  But now we have been released from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve as slaves in newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  and God chose the lowborn things of the world and the despised things, the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  Yet we speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will do away with both the one and the other. But the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

• 1 Corinthians 13:8

  Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they will be done away with; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 13:10

  but when the complete comes, what is in part will be done away with.

• 1 Corinthians 13:11

  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child.

• 1 Corinthians 15:24

  then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he has done away with every rule and every authority and power.

• 1 Corinthians 15:26

  The last enemy is being done away with: death.

• 2 Corinthians 3:7

  Now if the service of death, engraved in letters on stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, a glory that was being set aside,

• 2 Corinthians 3:11

  For if what is being set aside came through glory, much more what remains is in glory.

• 2 Corinthians 3:13

  and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not gaze at the end of what was being set aside.

• 2 Corinthians 3:14

  But their minds were hardened. For until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, not being lifted, because in the Messiah it is set aside.

• Galatians 3:17

  Now this I say: a covenant previously ratified by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul, so as to nullify the promise.

• Galatians 5:4

  You have been cut off from the Messiah, you who are trying to be declared righteous by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

• Galatians 5:11

  But I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

• Ephesians 2:15

  having abolished the law of commandments in decrees, so that he might create the two in himself into one new man, making peace,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:8

  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the radiance of his coming,

• 2 Timothy 1:10

  but now has been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus the Messiah, who abolished death and brought to light life and incorruption through the good news,

• Hebrews 2:14

  Since therefore the children share in blood and flesh, he also likewise shared in the same things, so that through death he might render powerless the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

And 1 more times.