καθά
according as
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2505 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
καθα (kathá) is a Greek word most often rendered “according as.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Matthew 27:10. It clusters with κατα, καθαιρεω and καθαπτω under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2505 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: As 1×
- American Standard Version: As 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: As 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Just as 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2505 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2505 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2505 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Renders G2505 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- according as, just as
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2505, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καθαιρεω kathairéō G2507 to tear down
- καθαπτω katháptō G2510 to fasten down
- καθεδρα kathédra G2515 seat
- καθεζομαι kathézomai G2516 to sit down
- καθεξης kathexēs G2517 in order
- καθευδω katheúdō G2518 to fall asleep
- καθηγητης kathēgētḗs G2519 guide
- καθηκω kathḗkō G2520 to come down
- καθημαι káthēmai G2521 to sit down
- καθημερινος kathēmerinós G2522 daily
- καθιημι kathíēmi G2524 to send down
- καθιστημι kathístēmi G2525 to place
- καθο kathó G2526 according to what
- καθολου kathólou G2527 wholly
- καθοπλιζω kathoplízō G2528 to arm
- καθοραω kathoráō G2529 to see clearly
- καθοτι kathóti G2530 according to what
- καθως kathṓs G2531 according as
- καμμυω kammýō G2576 to close eyes
- καταβαινω katabaínō G2597 to descend
- καταβαλλω katabállō G2598 to cast down
- καταβαρεω katabaréō G2599 to weigh down
- καταβιβαζω katabibázō G2601 to bring down
- καταβραβευω katabrabeúō G2603 to defraud
+103 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 130 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καθα appears 94 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 92 verses in 13 books.
- 94
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 92
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 7:9 καθά
- Exodus 9:12 καθά
- Leviticus 7:36 καθά
- Numbers 2:33 καθά
- Deuteronomy 3:24 καθά
- Joshua 4:18 καθά
- 1 Samuel 8:5 καθά
- 2 Samuel 13:29 καθά
- 1 Kings 20:11 καθά
- 2 Kings 7:17 καθά
- Esther 1:21 καθά
- Job 34:11 καθά
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2505) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 92. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 7:9 καθά went by pairs to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:16 καθά Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.
- Genesis 17:23 καθά Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
- Genesis 19:8 καθά See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
- Genesis 21:1 καθά Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
- Genesis 21:2 καθά Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Genesis 21:4 καθά Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- Genesis 24:51 καθά Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."
- Genesis 27:8 καθά Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
- Genesis 27:14 καθά He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 27:19 καθά Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 34:22 καθά Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 40:22 καθά but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
- Genesis 41:21 καθά and when they had eaten them up, it couldn't be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
- Genesis 41:54 καθά The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Genesis 43:14 καθά May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
- Genesis 43:17 καθά The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.
- Genesis 47:11 καθά Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Exodus 9:12 καθά Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn't listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
- Exodus 12:28 καθά The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 12:31 καθά He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
- Exodus 12:35 καθά The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
- Exodus 12:50 καθά Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
- Exodus 32:28 καθά The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
- Exodus 36:8 καθά All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tent with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
- Exodus 36:12 καθά He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite one to another.
- Exodus 36:14 καθά He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains.
- Exodus 36:28 καθά He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 36:33 καθά He made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other.
- Exodus 37:19 καθά three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 37:20 καθά In the lampstand were four cups made like almond-blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
- Exodus 39:10 καθά They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
- Exodus 40:19 καθά He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 7:36 καθά which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion forever throughout their generations.
- Leviticus 8:29 καθά Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 9:15 καθά He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
- Leviticus 24:23 καθά Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 2:33 καθά But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 4:37 καθά These are those who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 5:4 καθά The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.
- Numbers 8:3 καθά Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 8:20 καθά Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the Levites. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.
- Numbers 9:5 καθά They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
- Numbers 15:23 καθά even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
- Numbers 15:36 καθά All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 17:5 καθά It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 17:26 καθά
- Numbers 18:18 καθά The flesh of them shall be your, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.
- Numbers 20:9 καθά Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
- Numbers 20:27 καθά Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2505) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
