κατατέμνω
cut up, cut in pieces
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατατέμνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 21:5 κατατέμνω And you⌃ shall not shave your head for the dead with a baldness on the top; and they shall not shave their beard, neither shall they make gashes on their flesh.
- 1 Kings 18:28 κατατέμνω And they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves according to their custom with knives and lancets until the blood gushed out upon them.
- Isaiah 15:2 κατατέμνω Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: there shall you⌃ go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl you⌃: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be wounded.
- Hosea 7:14 κατατέμνω And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.
About this word
About this word
κατατέμνω (katatémnō), “cut up, cut in pieces,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
