καταρτίζω
to complete
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).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
- 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).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Optative
- Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G2675 appears in the Aorist tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
Hebrews 2 verses
- Hebrews 10:5 κατηρτίσω aor mid ind 2sg Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me;
- Hebrews 13:21 καταρτίσαι aor act opt 3sg make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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.
At its core, καταρτιζω (katartízō) means “to complete.” First canonically at Matthew 4:21, it enters the text early. With 13 verses in 10 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. From the same root come κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. Dig into 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2675 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.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 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 →
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.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 38%
- Gospels 4 verses · 31%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 23%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
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: Make 2×, Mending 2×, Perfect 2×
- American Standard Version: Mending 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mending 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Restore 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2675 across 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2675 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 G2675 across 13 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2675 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 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 render, i.e. to fit, sound, complete
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G2675 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καταρτίσαι katartísai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 1 Thessalonians 3:10 | 2 |
| καταρτίζοντας katartízontas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 4:21 | 2 |
| κατηρτίσω katērtísō | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 21:16 | 2 |
| καταρτίζεσθε katartízesthe | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 2 Corinthians 13:11 | 1 |
| καταρτίζετε katartízete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Galatians 6:1 | 1 |
| καταρτίσει katartísei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Peter 5:10 | 1 |
| κατηρτίσθαι katērtísthai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Infinitive | Hebrews 11:3 | 1 |
| κατηρτισμένα katērtisména | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Romans 9:22 | 1 |
| κατηρτισμένοι katērtisménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 1:10 | 1 |
| κατηρτισμένος katērtisménos | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 6:40 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2675, 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 131 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καταρτιζω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 2 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezra 4:12 καταἀρτίζω
- Psalms 8:3 καταἀρτίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2675) 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.
- Ezra 4:12 καταἀρτίζω Be it known to the king, that the Jews who came up from you are come to us to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
- Ezra 4:13 καταἀρτίζω Be it known now to the king that if this city is built, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
- Ezra 4:16 καταἀρτίζω We inform the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by this means you shall have no portion beyond the River.
- Ezra 5:3 καταἀρτίζω At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- Ezra 5:9 καταἀρτίζω Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- Ezra 5:11 καταἀρτίζω Thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
- Ezra 6:14 καταἀρτίζω The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
- Psalms 8:3 καταἀρτίζω When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
- Psalms 10:3 καταἀρτίζω For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings, He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
- Psalms 16:5 καταἀρτίζω Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
- Psalms 17:34 καταἀρτίζω
- Psalms 28:9 καταἀρτίζω Save your people, And bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, And bear them up forever.
- Psalms 39:7 καταἀρτίζω Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
- Psalms 67:10 καταἀρτίζω
- Psalms 73:16 καταἀρτίζω When I tried to understand this, It was too painful for me;
- Psalms 79:16 καταἀρτίζω
- Psalms 88:38 καταἀρτίζω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2675) 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.
