καταλλάσσω
to exchange
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
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2644 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 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.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 5:18 καταλλάξαντος aor act ptcp gen sg masc But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
- 2 Corinthians 5:19 καταλλάσσων pres act ptcp nom sg masc namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 καταλλάγητε aor pass impv 2pl We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
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.
καταλλασσω — transliterated katallássō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to exchange.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in 2 Corinthians. Debuting at Romans 5:10, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2644 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 60%
- Romans 1 verse 20%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 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: Be reconciled 1×, Be ye reconciled 1×, Being reconciled 1×
- American Standard Version: Being reconciled 1×, Christ 1×, Else be reconciled 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be reconciled 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be reconciled 1×, Having been reconciled 1×, Having reconciled 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2644 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2644 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2644 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2644 across 6 tagged occurrences — 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.
- to change, exchange, as coins for others of equivalent value
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G2644 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καταλλάγητε katallágēte | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 5:20 | 1 |
| καταλλάξαντος katalláxantos | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 5:18 | 1 |
| καταλλάσσων katallássōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 5:19 | 1 |
| καταλλαγέντες katallagéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 5:10 | 1 |
| καταλλαγήτω katallagḗtō | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 7:11 | 1 |
| κατηλλάγημεν katēllágēmen | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Romans 5:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2644, 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).
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 καταλλασσω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Jeremiah 31:39 καταἀλλάσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2644) 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 (G2644) 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.
