κατακολουθέω
katakolouthéō · G2628 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to follow along behind, to keep on following
To come/go behind or after, with the possible implication of continual and determined action
ExamplesLuke 23:55 Now the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was laid.
Acts 16:17 She followed Paul and us and cried out repeatedly, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation.”
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
- μνημεῖονgrave 1
- ΠαῦλοςPaul 1
- τίθημιto put 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To follow along behind, to keep on following15.145
- In Luke 23:55, of the women at the crucifixion it is written, “the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was laid,” using this word for the act of following someone else's movement.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κατακολούθω; 1 aorist participle κατακολουθησας; to follow after (see κατά, III. 5): Lk…
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
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
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