kathaireō · take down

What it means

kathaireō (καθαιρέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “take down”.

Also tear down.

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 lower someone, like Jesus' body from the cross.
2. To pull down; remove someone from their place.

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

How it is translated

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

• I will tear down ×1
• after destroying ×1
• be stripped ×1
• demolishing ×1
• he has brought down ×1
• he took down ×1
• take down ×1
• taking it down ×1
• they took him down ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Mark×2
• Luke×3
• Acts×3
• 2 Corinthians×1

• Mark 15:36

  And someone ran, and filling a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and was giving him a drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”

• Mark 15:46

  And having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

• Luke 1:52

  he has brought down rulers from thrones and exalted the lowly;

• Luke 12:18

  And he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will gather all my grain and my goods.

• Luke 23:53

  And taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a tomb cut in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

• Acts 13:19

  And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them as an inheritance their land

• Acts 13:29

  And when they had carried out all that had been written about him, they took him down from the wooden beam and laid him in a tomb.

• Acts 19:27

  And not only is this line of business of ours in danger of coming into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis is in danger of being counted as nothing, and she is going to be stripped of her majesty, she whom all Asia and the inhabited world worship.”

• 2 Corinthians 10:4

  for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful for God for the demolition of strongholds, demolishing arguments