κατάβασις
katábasis · G2600 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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slope, descent
(Derivative of καταβαίνω ‘to move down, to descend,’) The slope or declivity of an object which one may descend
ExamplesLuke 19:37 And as soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὄροςmountain 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- מוֹרָד môwrâd · H4174 · descent, slope, beveled work
- Hebrew noun denoting a descent or slope, the direct translation equivalent for κατάβασις in contexts describing downward terrain (e.g., LXX usage for geographical declivity)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Slope, descent15.109
- In Luke 19:37, as Jesus approaches Jerusalem it is written, “As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully,” using this word for the downward slope of the road.
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καταβάσεως, ἡ (καταβαίνω) (from Herodotus down), descent; a. the act of descending. b.…
a. the act of descending.
b. the place of descent: τοῦ ὄρους, i. e. that part of the mountain where the descent is made, Lk 19:37; so Josh 10:11 the Sept.; Diodorus 4, 21; opposed to ἀνάβασις, the place of ascent way up, 1 Macc. 3:16, 24; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 2, 3. So Latindescensus; cf. Herzog on Sall. Cat. 57, 3.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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