Word

καθήκω

kathḗkō · G2520 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to be fitting, to be right

To be fitting or right, with the implication of possible moral judgment involved

Examples
Romans 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ζάωto be alive, to live, to come back to life 1
Not stated (participle) 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 2 groups

μήnot 1
οὐnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ποιέωto do, to make 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

πρέπω prépō · G4241 · to be fitting, to be right: Both verbs denote propriety or fittingness; they differ in register or emphasis, conspicuous appropriateness versus meeting an expected standard, rather than in core meaning.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To be fitting, to be right66.1: In Acts 22:22, of the crowd's outcry against Paul it is written, “Away with such a man from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live,” using this word for what is fitting or proper to be done.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἥκω hḗkō · G2240 · to come to, to reach, to arrive · 25×ἀνήκω anḗkō · G433 · to be fitting, to be right · 3×ἐφικνέομαι ephiknéomai · G2185 · to come to, to reach, to arrive · 2×καθήκωkathḗkō · G2520

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from Aeschylus, Sophocles down); 1. to come down. 2. to come to, reach to; impersonally,…

(from Aeschylus, Sophocles down);
1. to come down.
2. to come to, reach to; impersonally, καθήκει, it is becoming, it is fit (cf. German zukommen), Ezek 21:27; οὐ καθῆκεν (Rev. καθῆκον), followed by the accusative with an infinitive, Acts 22:22 (Winers Grammar, 282 (265); Buttmann, 217 (187)); τά μή καθήκοντα, things not fitting, i. e. forbidden, shameful, Rom 1:28; Rom 1:2 Macc. 6:4. Cf. ἀνήκω.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Proper, Improper2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0