κατανεύω
kataneúō · G2656 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to gesture, to motion, to nod, to beckon
To signal to someone by means of part of the body, especially by means of the head or hands
ExamplesLuke 5:7 so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both of the boats, to the point that they were sinking.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
To or for whomIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέτοχοςcompanion 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
- κατασείω kataseíō · G2678 · to make a sign, to give a signal
- Greek verb for making a gesture by moving the hand, semantically parallel to κατανεύω (nodding) as another form of non-verbal beckoning or signaling
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To gesture, to motion, to nod, to beckon33.485
- In Luke 5:7, of the miraculous catch of fish it is written that the fishermen “signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them,” using this word for the act of silently signaling to someone at a distance.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist κατένευσα; from Homer down; to nod to, make a sign to: τίνι, followed by τοῦ…
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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