καταφέρω
katapherō · bring down, be overcome
Greek word · Strong’s number G2702 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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katapherō (καταφέρω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “bring down, be overcome”.
Bring down; cast a vote, bring charges; in the passive, be overcome, borne down, as by sleep.
How to say it
ka·ta·phe·rō
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
- To be slowly mastered, as by sleep.
- To lay charges against someone before a judge.
- To vote in a trial to condemn someone.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- I cast ×1
- bringing ×1
- overcome ×1
- sinking ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 20:9
And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on, overcome by sleep, fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.
- Acts 25:7
And when he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges which they could not prove,
- Acts 26:10
which I also did in Jerusalem; and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests, and when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them.
And 1 more times.