κατασκευάζω
to prepare
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- 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).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- 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”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G2680 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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.
κατασκευαζω (kataskeuázō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to prepare.” Hebrews dominates its distribution — 5 of 10 verses. Spanning 10 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 11:10. Related forms include κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2680 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 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 10 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 4 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 20%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 10%
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: Shall prepare 3×, Prepared 2×
- American Standard Version: Prepared 3×, Shall prepare 3×, He that built 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will prepare 3×, Builder 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will prepare 3×, Prepared 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2680 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 G2680 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G2680 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G2680 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 furnish, equip, prepare, make ready
Word origin
Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G2680 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατασκευάσει kataskeuásei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 11:10 | 3 |
| κατασκευάσας kataskeuásas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 3:3 | 2 |
| κατασκευάζεται kataskeuázetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 3:4 | 1 |
| κατασκευαζομένης kataskeuazoménēs | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 1 Peter 3:20 | 1 |
| κατεσκευάσθη kateskeuásthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 9:2 | 1 |
| κατεσκευασμένον kateskeuasménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:17 | 1 |
| κατεσκευασμένων kateskeuasménōn | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 9:6 | 1 |
| κατεσκεύασεν kateskeúasen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 11:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2680, 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 κατασκευαζω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 4 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 21:27 κατασκευάζω
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 κατασκευάζω
- Proverbs 23:5 κατασκευάζω
- Isaiah 40:19 κατασκευάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2680) 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.
- Numbers 21:27 κατασκευάζω Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come you to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
- 2 Chronicles 32:5 κατασκευάζω He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- Proverbs 23:5 κατασκευάζω Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
- Isaiah 40:19 κατασκευάζω The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
- Isaiah 40:28 κατασκευάζω Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
- Isaiah 43:7 κατασκευάζω everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.
- Isaiah 45:7 κατασκευάζω I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
- Isaiah 45:9 κατασκευάζω Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2680) 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.