καταντάω
to arrive
‘to arrive’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs 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”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 3 times (23%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 3 times (23%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 times (15%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2658 appears — 13 distinct verses across 4 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.
Acts 9 verses
- Acts 16:1 Κατήντησεν aor act ind 3sg He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.
- Acts 18:19 κατήντησαν aor act ind 3pl He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
- Acts 18:24 κατήντησεν aor act ind 3sg Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
- Acts 20:15 κατηντήσαμεν aor act ind 1pl Sailing from there, we came the following day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
- Acts 21:7 κατηντήσαμεν aor act ind 1pl When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
- Acts 25:13 κατήντησαν aor act ind 3pl Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
- Acts 26:7 καταντῆσαι aor act inf which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
- Acts 27:12 καταντήσαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.
- Acts 28:13 κατηντήσαμεν aor act ind 1pl From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 κατήντηκεν perf act ind 3sg Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
- 1 Corinthians 14:36 κατήντησεν aor act ind 3sg What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 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.
“to arrive” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κατανταω (katantáō). More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Acts. It appears 13 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Acts 16:1, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 13-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2658 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 9 verses 69%
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 15%
- Ephesians 1 verse 8%
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 13 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 69%
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 31%
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: Came 4×, Come 2×
- American Standard Version: Arrived 2×, Attain 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Came 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Came down 3×, We came down 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2658 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G2658 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2658 across 13 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2658 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.
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.
- to come to a place over against, opposite another
- metaph. to attain to a thing
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G2658 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατηντήσαμεν katēntḗsamen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Acts 20:15 | 3 |
| κατήντησαν katḗntēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 18:19 | 2 |
| κατήντησεν katḗntēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 18:24 | 2 |
| Κατήντησεν Katḗntēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 16:1 | 1 |
| κατήντηκεν katḗntēken | Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Corinthians 10:11 | 1 |
| καταντήσαντες katantḗsantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 27:12 | 1 |
| καταντήσω katantḗsō | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular | Philippians 3:11 | 1 |
| καταντήσωμεν katantḗsōmen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural | Ephesians 4:13 | 1 |
| καταντῆσαι katantē̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Acts 26:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2658, 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 κατανταω 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
- 2 Samuel 3:29 καταἀντάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2658) 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 (G2658) 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.
