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καταδυναστεύω

to oppress

‘to oppress’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G2616 Strong's Greek
katadynasteúō Transliteration
/kat-ad-oo-nas-tyoo'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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καταδυναστευω (katadynasteúō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to oppress.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Acts 10:38. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
oppress
Modern gloss
to oppress
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2616 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 10:38
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 10:38.
James 2:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in James 2:6.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 50%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 50%

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: Do 1×, Oppress 1×, Were oppressed 1×
  • American Standard Version: Man 1×, Oppress 1×, Were oppressed 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Oppress 1×, Were oppressed 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being oppressed 1×, Do 1×, Overpower 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2616 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Do” 1×
  • “Oppress” 1×
  • “Were oppressed” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2616 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Man” 1×
  • “Oppress” 1×
  • “Were oppressed” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2616 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Oppress” 1×
  • “Were oppressed” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2616 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being oppressed” 1×
  • “Do” 1×
  • “Overpower” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 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.

  1. to exercise harsh control over one, to use one's power against one
  2. to oppress one

Word origin

Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.

Part of speech: Verb

From G2596 and a derivative of G1413 ; to exercise dominion against that is oppress : - oppress.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G2616 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
καταδυναστευομένους katadynasteuoménous Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Acts 10:38 1
καταδυναστεύουσιν katadynasteúousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural James 2:6 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2616, 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

+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 καταδυναστευω appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 26 verses in 14 books.

28
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
26
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
14 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2616) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2616) 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.

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