To come/go down
καταβαίνωStrong’s G2597katabainō
Appears in 82 verses of the New Testament
In short
Katabainō is the Greek word usually translated “descending”, “having come down” and “came down”. It appears in 82 verses of the New Testament.
“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:”
Meaning
Usually translated “descending”, “having come down” and “came down”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- descending 12
- having come down 7
- came down 5
- having descended 5
- coming down 5
- he should come down 3
- he went down 3
- was going down 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 19
- John 18
- Luke 13
- Matthew 11
- Revelation 10
- Mark 6
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 7:25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Matthew 8:1When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
- Matthew 11:23And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
- Matthew 14:29And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
- Matthew 17:9And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
All 82 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
καταβαίνω katabainō · to come/go down
κατα-βαίνω [in LXX chiefly for יָרַד ;] to go or come down, descend. 1. Of persons: Mat.3:16 24:17, Luk.2:51 6:17 10:31 17:31 19:5-6, Jhn.4:47, 49 4:51 5:7, Act.7:34 8:15 10:20 20:10 23:10 24:1, 22 Eph.4:10. before ἀπό, Mat.8:1 14:29 27:40, 42 Mrk.3:22 15:30, Luk.10:30, Jhn.6:38, Act.25:7, 1Th.4:16; ἐκ, Mat.17:9; ἐκ τ. οὐρανοῦ, Mat.28:2, Mrk.9:9, Jhn.1:32 3:13 6:33, 41-42 6:50-51, 58 Rev.10:1 18:1 20:1; εἰς, Mrk.1:10, Luk.10:30 18:14, Jhn.2:12, Act.7:15 8:38 14:25 16:8 18:22 25:6, Rom.10:7, Eph.4:9; ἐπί, with accusative loc., Jhn.6:16; with accusative of person(s), Luk.3:22, Jhn.1:33, 51; ἐ …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “descend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESCEND, verb intransitive
[Latin To climb.]
- To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body.“The rains descended, and the floods came” Matthew 7:25
- To go down, or to enter.
- To come suddenly; to fall violently.
- To go in; to enter.
All definitions and other forms of “descend”
- To rush; to invade, as an enemy.
- To proceed from a source or original; to be derived.
- To proceed, as from father to son; to pass from a preceding possessor, in the order of lineage, or according to the laws of succession or inheritance.
- To pass from general to particular considerations; as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
- To come down from an elevated or honorable station; in a figurative sense.
- In music, to fall in sound; to pass from any note to another less acute or shrill, or from sharp to flat.
DESCEND, verb transitive
To walk, move or pass downwards on a declivity; as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plain. [But this may be considered as elliptical; on or along being understood.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.