katō · below

What it means

katō (κάτω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “below”.

Down; "from below".

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. Lower; "two years old or less".

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• below ×3
• down ×3
• bottom ×2
• under ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Acts×2

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, was greatly enraged, and sending men, he killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had learned precisely from the magi.

• Matthew 4:6

  and says to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will lift you up, so that you do not strike your foot against a stone.’”

• Matthew 27:51

  And look, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split;

• Mark 14:66

  And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest comes,

• Mark 15:38

  And the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

• Luke 4:9

  And he brought him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;

• John 8:23

  And he was saying to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

• Acts 2:19

  And I will give wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

• 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.