καταρτίζω
katartízō · G2675 · Greek · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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to make adequate, to furnish completely, to cause to be fully qualified, adequacy
To make someone completely adequate or sufficient for something
ExamplesMatthew 4:21 Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them.
Mark 1:19 And going on a little farther, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
Luke 6:40 “A student is not above the teacher; but everyone, when he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.
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to produce, to arrange for, to cause to happen
To cause to happen by means of some arrangement
ExamplesMatthew 21:16 and they said to Him, “Do You hear what these children are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘FROM THE MOUTHS OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF’?”
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to create, to make
To create, with the implication of putting into proper condition
ExamplesRomans 9:22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, BUT YOU HAVE PREPARED A BODY FOR ME;
Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible.
How it’s used In 7 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
12 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- δίκτυονnet 2
- αἶνοςpraise 1
- σύyou 1
- σῶμαbody 1
- τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
- ὑστέρημαwhat is lacking 1
To or for whomIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 8 groups
- ἐνin+ πλοῖονboat 2
- εἰςto+ γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
- εἰςto+ ποιέωto do, to make 1
- εἰςto+ ἀπώλειαdestruction 1
- ἐκfrom+ στόμαmouth 1
- ἐνin+ ἀγαθόςgood 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
- λέγωto say 1
- ἀναγινώσκωto read 1
- νοέωto perceive 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διδάσκαλοςteacher, instructor 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 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
- כּוּן kûwn · H3559 · to be in place, to put in place, to establish
- Greek καταρτίζω emphasizes thorough completion and restoration (repair, mending, making complete), while Hebrew כּוּן focuses on establishment and preparation (making firm, setting up, ordaining), though both share the semantic domain of bringing something into proper order or readiness.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To produce, to arrange for, to cause to happen13.130
- In Romans 9:22, Paul writes, “What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?” using this word for the act of bringing about a resulting condition or state.
- To create, to make42.36
- In Hebrews 11:3, the writer states, “we understand that the world has been created by the word of God so that what is seen has not been made out of things that are visible,” using this word for the act of making or forming something into existence.
- To make adequate, to furnish completely, to cause to be fully qualified, adequacy75.5
- In Hebrews 13:21, the writer's benediction reads, “equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ,” using this word for the act of fully equipping someone to be adequate for a task.
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future καταρτίσω (1 Pet 5:10 L T Tr WH (Buttmann, 31 (32); but Rec. καταρτίσαι, 1 aorist…
a. to mend (what has been broken or rent), to repair: τά δίκτυα, Mt 4:21; Mk 1:19 (others reference these examples to next entry); equivalent to to complete, τά ὑστερήματα, 1 Thess 3:10.
b. to fit out, equip, put in order, arrange, adjust: τούς αἰῶνας, the worlds, passive Heb 11:3 (so, for הֵכִין, ἥλιον, Ps 73:16; σελήνην, Psalm 88:38); σκεύη κατηρτισμένη εἰς ἀπώλειαν, of men whose souls God has so constituted that they cannot escape destruction (but see Meyer (edited by Weiss) in the place cited), Rom 9:22 (πλοῖα, Polybius 5, 46, 10, and the like); of the mind: κατηρτισμένος ὡς etc. so instructed, equipped, as etc. (cf. Buttmann, 311 (267); but others take κατηρτισμένος as a circumstantial participle "when perfected shall be as (not 'above') his master" (see Meyer, in the place cited); on this view the passage may be referred to the next entry), Lk 6:40; middle to fit or frame for oneself, prepare: αἶνον, Mt 21:16 (from Ps 8:3; the Sept. for יָסַד); σῶμα, Heb 10:5.
c. ethically, to strengthen, perfect, complete, make one what he ought to be: τινα (1 Pet 5:10 (see above)); Gal 6:1 (of one who by correction may be brought back into the right way); passive, 2 Cor 13:11; τινα ἐν παντί ἔργῳ ((T WH omit)) ἀγαθῷ, Heb 13:21; κατηρτισμένοι ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ νοικτλ., of those who have been restored to harmony (so πάντα εἰς τωὐτό, Herodotus 5, 106; ἵνα καταρτισθῇ ἡ στασιαζουσα πόλις, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 3,10), 1 Cor 1:10. (Compare: προκαταρτίζω.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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