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καταφέρω

to bear down

G2702 Strong's Greek
kataphérō Transliteration
/kat-af-er'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 4 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 καταφερω centers on the idea of “to bear down.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 3 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 20:9. Sharing its root, it stands alongside κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fall
Modern gloss
to bear down
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 G2702 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 →

3
distinct verses
The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 20:9
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 20:9.
Acts 26:10
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 26:10.
#1,877
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

  • Acts 3 verses 100%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 3 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 3 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 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: Being fallen 1×, He sunk down 1×, I gave 1×
  • American Standard Version: Against them 1×, Being borne down 1×, Borne down 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Bringing 1×, He was sound 1×, I cast my vote against 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Against them 1×, Being overcome 1×, Bringing 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2702 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being fallen” 1×
  • “He sunk down” 1×
  • “I gave” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2702 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Against them” 1×
  • “Being borne down” 1×
  • “Borne down” 1×
  • “I gave” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2702 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bringing” 1×
  • “He was sound” 1×
  • “I cast my vote against” 1×
  • “Was sinking into” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2702 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Against them” 1×
  • “Being overcome” 1×
  • “Bringing” 1×
  • “Having been overcome” 1×
  • “I cast” 1×

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.

  1. to bear down, bring down, cast down

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb

From G2596 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down that is (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specifically to cast a vote : - fall give sink down.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 4 distinct written forms G2702 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
κατήνεγκα katḗnenka Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Acts 26:10 1
καταφέροντες kataphérontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 25:7 1
καταφερόμενος katapherómenos Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 20:9 1
κατενεχθεὶς katenechtheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 20:9 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2702, 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 καταφερω appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 8 books.

14
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
13
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
8 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2702) 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 (G2702) 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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