κατάγω
to lead down
‘to lead down’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective 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).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2609 appears in the Book of Acts — 7 distinct verses. 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.
Acts
- Acts 9:30 κατήγαγον aor act ind 3pl When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 22:30 καταγαγὼν aor act ptcp nom sg masc But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
- Acts 23:15 καταγάγῃ aor act subj 3sg Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
- Acts 23:20 καταγάγῃς aor act subj 2sg He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
- Acts 23:28 κατήγαγον aor act ind 1sg Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
- Acts 27:3 κατήχθημεν aor pass ind 1pl The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
- Acts 28:12 καταχθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc Touching at Syracuse, we stayed there three days.
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.
καταγω — transliterated katágō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to lead down.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Acts. It appears 9 verses across 3 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Luke 5:11, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 9-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2609 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
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 9 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 89%
- Gospels 1 verse · 11%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 11%
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: Down 4×
- American Standard Version: Down 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bring 1×, Bring christ down 1×, Bring him down 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Down 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2609 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 G2609 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2609 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2609 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 3 senses 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 lead down, bring down
- to bring the vessel from deep water to the land
- to be brought (down) in a ship, to land, touch at
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2609 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατήγαγον katḗgagon | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Acts 23:28 | 2 |
| κατήχθημεν katḗchthēmen | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Acts 27:3 | 1 |
| καταγάγῃ katagágē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 23:15 | 1 |
| καταγάγῃς katagágēs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular | Acts 23:20 | 1 |
| καταγαγεῖν katagageîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Romans 10:6 | 1 |
| καταγαγόντες katagagóntes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 5:11 | 1 |
| καταγαγὼν katagagṑn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 22:30 | 1 |
| καταχθέντες katachthéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 28:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2609, 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
- 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
+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 καταγω appears 55 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 52 verses in 16 books.
- 55
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 52
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 37:25 καταἄγω
- Deuteronomy 33:11 καταἄγω
- 1 Samuel 2:6 καταἄγω
- 1 Kings 1:33 καταἄγω
- 2 Kings 11:19 καταἄγω
- Psalms 21:16 καταἄγω
- Proverbs 5:5 καταἄγω
- Isaiah 9:2 καταἄγω
- Jeremiah 9:17 καταἄγω
- Lamentations 1:13 καταἄγω
- Ezekiel 26:11 καταἄγω
- Hosea 7:12 καταἄγω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2609) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 52. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 37:25 καταἄγω They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 37:28 καταἄγω Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Genesis 39:1 καταἄγω Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.
- Genesis 42:38 καταἄγω He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 43:11 καταἄγω Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it be so now, do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
- Genesis 44:21 καταἄγω You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'
- Genesis 44:29 καταἄγω If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'
- Genesis 44:31 καταἄγω it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
- Genesis 45:13 καταἄγω You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."
- Deuteronomy 33:11 καταἄγω Bless, Yahweh, his substance, Accept the work of his hands: Smite through the loins of those who rise up against him, Of those who hate him, that they not rise again.
- 1 Samuel 2:6 καταἄγω Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
- 1 Samuel 19:12 καταἄγω So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
- 1 Samuel 30:15 καταἄγω David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 καταἄγω When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- 1 Kings 1:33 καταἄγω The king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
- 1 Kings 2:6 καταἄγω Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
- 1 Kings 2:9 καταἄγω Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.
- 1 Kings 2:35 καταἄγω The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 5:23 καταἄγω
- 1 Kings 6:35 καταἄγω He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
- 1 Kings 17:23 καταἄγω Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
- 1 Kings 18:40 καταἄγω and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; don't let one of them escape. They took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.
- 2 Kings 11:19 καταἄγω He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
- Psalms 21:16 καταἄγω
- Psalms 30:18 καταἄγω
- Psalms 54:24 καταἄγω
- Psalms 55:8 καταἄγω "I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest."
- Psalms 58:12 καταἄγω
- Psalms 77:16 καταἄγω The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
- Proverbs 5:5 καταἄγω Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
- Proverbs 7:27 καταἄγω Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
- Isaiah 9:2 καταἄγω The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light: those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.
- Isaiah 26:5 καταἄγω For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
- Isaiah 63:3 καταἄγω I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
- Isaiah 63:6 καταἄγω I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.
- Jeremiah 9:17 καταἄγω Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:
- Jeremiah 13:17 καταἄγω But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
- Jeremiah 14:17 καταἄγω You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
- Jeremiah 31:25 καταἄγω For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
- Lamentations 1:13 καταἄγω From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Lamentations 1:16 καταἄγω For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 2:10 καταἄγω The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Lamentations 2:18 καταἄγω Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don't let the apple of your eye cease.
- Lamentations 3:48 καταἄγω My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 26:11 καταἄγω With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
- Hosea 7:12 καταἄγω When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
- Joel 4:2 καταἄγω
- Amos 3:11 καταἄγω Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered."
- Amos 9:2 καταἄγω Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
- Obadiah 1:3 καταἄγω The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?'
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2609) 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.