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καταπίνω

to swallow up

‘to swallow up’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G2666 Strong's Greek
katapínō Transliteration
/kat-ap-ee'-no/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 7 appearances

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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.

The Greek verb καταπινω centers on the idea of “to swallow up.” Debuting at Matthew 23:24, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 7 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to 2 Corinthians (29%), then Matthew and 1 Corinthians. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
devour
Modern gloss
to swallow up
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2666 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 →

7
distinct verses
The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 23:24
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 23:24.
Revelation 12:16
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 12:16.
#1,358
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 14%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 43%
  • General Epistles 2 · 29%
  • Revelation 1 · 14%

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 7 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 43%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 14%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 14%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 14%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 14%

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: He may devour 1×, Is swallowed up 1×, Might be swallowed up 1×
  • American Standard Version: He may devour 1×, Is swallowed up 1×, Should be swallowed up 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Devour 1×, Has been swallowed up 1×, May be swallowed up 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be overwhelmed 1×, Devour 1×, Is swallowed up 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2666 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He may devour” 1×
  • “Is swallowed up” 1×
  • “Might be swallowed up” 1×
  • “Should be swallowed up” 1×
  • “Swallow” 1×
  • “Swallowed up” 1×
  • “Were drowned” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2666 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He may devour” 1×
  • “Is swallowed up” 1×
  • “Should be swallowed up” 1×
  • “Swallow” 1×
  • “Swallowed” 1×
  • “Upon” 1×
  • “Were swallowed up” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2666 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Devour” 1×
  • “Has been swallowed up” 1×
  • “May be swallowed up” 1×
  • “Swallow” 1×
  • “Swallow up” 1×
  • “They were drowned” 1×
  • “Will not be overwhelmed” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2666 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Be overwhelmed” 1×
  • “Devour” 1×
  • “Is swallowed up” 1×
  • “May be swallowed up” 1×
  • “Might” 1×
  • “Swallowed” 1×
  • “Swallowing” 1×
  • “Were swallowed up” 1×

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.

  1. to drink down, swallow down
  2. to devour
  3. to swallow up, destroy

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 08:38,8

From G2596 and G4095 ; to drink down that is gulp entire (literally or figuratively): - devour drown swallow (up).

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


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G2666 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
καταποθῇ katapothē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 2 Corinthians 2:7 2
κατέπιεν katépien Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 12:16 1
καταπίνοντες katapínontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 23:24 1
καταπιεῖν katapieîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 Peter 5:8 1
κατεπόθη katepóthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 15:54 1
κατεπόθησαν katepóthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Hebrews 11:29 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2666, 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 καταπινω appears 36 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 36 verses in 14 books.

36
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
36
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 (G2666) 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 (G2666) 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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