κατέρχομαι
katérchomai · G2718 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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to move down, to come down, to go down, to descend
To move down, irrespective of the gradient
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to arrive at land, to put in at
(Technical, nautical term) To go by ship toward the shore
ExamplesActs 18:22 When he had landed in Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.
Acts 21:3 When we came in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we kept sailing to Syria and landed at Tyre; for the ship was to unload its cargo there.
How it’s used In 6 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
16 occurrences in 12 groups
- Not stated in the clause 4
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
12 occurrences in 13 groups
- Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- καίand 1
- ἄνωθενfrom above 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- συνέχωto control 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σοφίαwisdom 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 2 words
- κατάγω katágō · G2609 · to bring down, to lead down, to put in at
- Both verbs appear in the same nautical usage of arriving at a port or landing place. κατάγω carries a causative sense — 'to bring down, to moor a vessel' — in contrast to the target's intransitive sense of coming or going down; this is a genuine valency (transitive/intransitive) difference within a shared core meaning of nautical arrival.
- καταβαίνω katabaínō · G2597 · to move down, to come down, to go down
- Both verbs denote downward movement, but κατέρχομαι frequently describes arrivals at destinations (particularly in maritime contexts of coming down to port), while καταβαίνω covers a broader range of literal and figurative descents without the specialized arrival nuance.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To move down, to come down, to go down, to descend15.107
- In Acts 9:32, of Peter's travels it is written, “as Peter was traveling through all those regions, he also came down to the saints who lived at Lydda,” using this word for the act of moving down to or descending toward a place.
- To arrive at land, to put in at54.15
- In Acts 18:22, of Paul's voyage it is written, “When he had landed in Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch,” using this word for the act of a ship arriving at or putting in to land.
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 2 aorist κατῆλθον, 1 person plural κατηλθαμεν (Acts 27:5 T Tr WH; on which form see…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
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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