katerchomai · come down

What it means

katerchomai (κατέρχομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “come down”.

Go down from a higher place.

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 move from a high place to a lower one.

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

How it is translated

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

• came down ×5
• went down ×3
• going down ×2
• had come down ×2
• landed ×2
• comes down ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Acts×12
• James×1

• Luke 4:31

  And he went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath.

• Luke 9:37

  And it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a large crowd met him.

• Acts 8:5

  And Philip, going down to the city of Samaria, was proclaiming to them the Messiah.

• Acts 9:32

  Now it happened that Peter, going through all parts, came down also to the saints who lived in Lod.

• Acts 11:27

  Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

• Acts 12:19

  And Herod, after searching for him and not finding him, examined the guards and ordered them to be led away; and going down from Judea to Caesarea, he stayed there.

• Acts 13:4

  So they, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

• Acts 15:1

  And some who had come down from Judea were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

• Acts 15:30

  So they, when they were sent off, went down to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude, they delivered the letter.

• Acts 18:5

  And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was wholly occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

• Acts 18:22

  And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

• Acts 21:3

  And when we had sighted Cyprus and left it on the left, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was unloading its cargo.

• Acts 21:10

  And while we were staying many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

• Acts 27:5

  And sailing across the sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra in Lycia.

• James 3:15

  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, natural, demonic.