καθίημι
to send down
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (50%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2524 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 9:25 καθῆκαν aor act ind 3pl but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
- Acts 10:11 καθιέμενον pres pass ptcp acc sg neut He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,
- Acts 11:5 καθιεμένην pres pass ptcp acc sg fem "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
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.
καθιημι — transliterated kathíēmi — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to send down.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 5:19. It shares a root with κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2524 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
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 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 100%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
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: Let down 2×
- American Standard Version: Let 2×, Let down 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Being let down 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being let down 2×, Down 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2524 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2524 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2524 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2524 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- to send down, to let down
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
From G2596 and ἵημι hiē mi (to send ); to lower : - let down.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2524 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καθῆκαν kathē̂kan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Luke 5:19 | 2 |
| καθιέμενον kathiémenon | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 10:11 | 1 |
| καθιεμένην kathieménēn | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 11:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2524, 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
- καθα kathá G2505 according as
- 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
- 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).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καθιημι appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 13 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- 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
- Exodus 17:11 καταἵημι
- Numbers 32:6 καταἵημι
- Judges 6:10 καταἵημι
- 1 Samuel 1:22 καταἵημι
- 2 Samuel 16:18 καταἵημι
- 1 Kings 1:17 καταἵημι
- 2 Kings 10:30 καταἵημι
- Psalms 28:10 καταἵημι
- Ecclesiastes 10:6 καταἵημι
- Jeremiah 28:30 καταἵημι
- Ezekiel 44:3 καταἵημι
- Hosea 3:4 καταἵημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2524) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 17:11 καταἵημι It happened, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
- Exodus 23:33 καταἵημι They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
- Numbers 32:6 καταἵημι Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
- Judges 6:10 καταἵημι and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not listened to my voice.
- 1 Samuel 1:22 καταἵημι But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever.
- 1 Samuel 5:7 καταἵημι When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on us, and on Dagon our god.
- 1 Samuel 12:2 καταἵημι Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
- 2 Samuel 16:18 καταἵημι Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
- 1 Kings 1:17 καταἵημι She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.
- 1 Kings 1:20 καταἵημι You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
- 1 Kings 1:24 καταἵημι Nathan said, My lord, king, have you said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne?
- 1 Kings 1:27 καταἵημι Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven't shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
- 1 Kings 1:30 καταἵημι most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.
- 1 Kings 1:35 καταἵημι Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
- 1 Kings 7:45 καταἵημι and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
- 2 Kings 10:30 καταἵημι Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
- Psalms 28:10 καταἵημι
- Ecclesiastes 10:6 καταἵημι Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
- Jeremiah 28:30 καταἵημι
- Ezekiel 44:3 καταἵημι As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
- Hosea 3:4 καταἵημι For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
- Zechariah 8:4 καταἵημι Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
- Zechariah 9:12 καταἵημι Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
- Zechariah 11:13 καταἵημι Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2524) 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.
