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Lexicon :: Strong's G2702 - katapherō

Aa
καταφέρω
Transliteration
katapherō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-af-er'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From κατά (G2596) and φέρω (G5342) (including its alternate)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Strong’s Definitions

καταφέρω kataphérō, kat-af-er'-o; from G2596 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote:—fall, give, sink down.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2702 in the following manner: fall (1x), sink down (1x), give (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2702 in the following manner: fall (1x), sink down (1x), give (1x).

  1. to bear down, bring down, cast down

    1. to cast a pebble or calculus into the urn

      1. to give one's vote, to approve

    2. to be born down, to sink, (from the window to the pavement)

    3. metaph.

      1. to be weighted down by, overcome, carried away

      2. to sink into sleep, drop asleep

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καταφέρω kataphérō, kat-af-er'-o; from G2596 and G5342 (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote:—fall, give, sink down.
STRONGS G2702:
καταφέρω; 1 aorist κατήνεγκα; passive, present καταφέρομαι; 1 aorist κατηνεχθην; (from Homer down); to bear down, bring down, cast down: ψῆφον, properly, to cast a pebble or calculus namely, into the urn, i. e. to give one's vote, to approve, Acts 26:10; αἰτιώματα κατά τίνος (see κατά, I. 2 b. (but the critical editions reject κατά κτλ.)), Acts 25:7 L T Tr WH. Passive, to be borne down, to sink (from the window to the pavement), ἀπό τοῦ ὕπνου, from sleep (from the effect of his deep sleep (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348))), Acts 20:9b; metaphorically, to be weighed down by, overcome, carried away, καταφερόμενος ὕπνῳ βάθει, sunk in a deep sleep, Acts 20:9a; of a different sort (contra Winer's Grammar, 431 (401)) is the expression in secular authors, καταφέρομαι εἰς ὕπνον, to sink into sleep, drop asleep, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 5; Herodian, 2, 1, 3 (2); 9, 6 (5); τοισιν ὑπνοισιν, Hipp., p. 1137 c. ((Kühn iii., p. 539)), and in the same sense simply καταφέρομαι; cf. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2 d.); Stephanus' Thesaurus 4 col. 1286 (where the passage from Acts is fully discussed).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
20:9; 20:9; 25:7; 26:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2702 matches the Greek καταφέρω (katapherō),
which occurs 4 times in 3 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:9 - And there was a young G3494 man G3494 named G3686 [fn]Eutychus G2161 sitting G2516 [fn]on the window G2376 sill, G2376 sinking G2702 into a deep G901 sleep; G5258 and as Paul G3972 kept on talking, G1256 he was overcome G2702 by sleep G5258 and fell G4098 down G2736 from the third G5152 floor G5152 and was picked G142 up dead. G3498

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:7 - After Paul arrived, G3854 the Jews G2453 who had come G2597 down G2597 from Jerusalem G2414 stood G4026 around G4026 him, bringing G2702 many G4183 and serious G926 charges G157 against G2702 him which G3739 they could G2480 not prove, G584

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10 - “And this G3739 is [fn]just G2532 what G3739 I did G4160 in Jerusalem; G2414 not only G2532 G5037 did I lock G2623 up many G4183 of the [fn]saints G40 in prisons, G5438 having received G2983 authority G1849 from the chief G749 priests, G749 but also G5037 when they were being put G337 to death G337 I cast G2702 my vote G5586 against G2702 them.
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