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Descent

κατάβασιςStrong’s G2600

katabasis

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Katabasis is the Greek word usually translated “descent”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;”
Luke 19:37 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “descent”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • descent 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    κατάβασις katabasis · descent

    κατα-βαρύνω [in LXX: 2Ki.13:25 14:26 (כָּבַד), Jol.2:8, Sir.8:15 * ;] = καταβαρέω: pass., Pres. ptcp., Mrk.14:40.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “descent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    DESCENT, noun

    1. The act of descending; the act of passing from a higher to a lower place, by any form of motion, as by walking, riding, rolling, sliding, sinking or falling.
    2. Inclination downward; obliquity; slope; declivity; as the descent of a hill, or a roof.
    3. Progress downward; as the descent from higher to lower orders of beings.
    4. Fall from a higher to a lower state or station.
    All definitions
    1. A landing from ships; invasion of troops from the sea; as, to make a descent on Cuba.
    2. A passing from an ancestor to an heir; transmission by succession or inheritance, as the descent of an estate or a title from the father to the son. descent is lineal, when it proceeds directly from the father to the son, and from the son to the grandson; collateral, when it proceeds from a man to his brother, nephew or other collateral representative.
    3. A proceeding from an original or progenitor.
    4. Birth; extraction; lineage; as a noble descent
    5. A generation; a single degree in the scale of genealogy; distance from the common ancestor.
    6. Offspring; issue; descendants.
    7. A rank in the scale of subordination.
    8. Lowest place.
    9. In music, a passing from a note or sound to one more grave or less acute.

    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.