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καταργέω

katargeōto abateHow to read Greek
greekNew TestamentVerb27 occurrences9 books26 verses

Definition

κατ-αργέω, -ῶ

(κατά, causative, ἀργός = ἀ-εργός), [in LXX: 2Es.4.21; 2Es.4.23; 2Es.5.5; 2Es.6.8 (בְּטֵל)* ;]

to make idle or inactive (χέρας, Eur., Phœn., 753): of soil occupied by an unfruitful tree, Luke 13:7. Metaphorical (Inscr.), to render inoperative or invalid, to abrogate, abolish: Romans 3:3, 31, 1 Corinthians 1:28; 6:13; 13:11; 15:24, Galatians 3:17, Ephesians 2:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, 2 Timothy 1:10, Hebrews 2:14; pass., Romans 4:14; 6:6, 1 Corinthians 2:6; 13:8; 13:10; 15:26, 2 Corinthians 3:7; 3:11-14, Galatians 5:11; before ἀπό (of persons), to be separated, discharged or loosed from, Romans 7:2, 6, Galatians 5:4.

Hebrew words it translates

The Hebrew words that the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders as καταργέω:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

27 total
  1. Luke 13:7καταργεῖ · should it use up
    So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
  2. Romans 3:3καταργήσει · nullify
    What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
  3. Romans 3:31καταργοῦμεν · Do we, then, nullify
    Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
  4. Romans 4:14κατήργηται · is worthless
    For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
  5. Romans 6:6καταργηθῇ · might be rendered powerless
    We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
  6. Romans 7:2κατήργηται · she is released
    For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
  7. Romans 7:6κατηργήθημεν · we have been released
    But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
  8. 1 Corinthians 1:28καταργήσῃ · nullify
    He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
  9. 1 Corinthians 2:6καταργουμένων · are coming to nothing
    Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
  10. 1 Corinthians 6:13καταργήσει · will destroy
    “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  11. 1 Corinthians 13:8καταργηθήσονται · they will cease; καταργηθήσεται · it will be dismissed
    Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
  12. 1 Corinthians 13:10καταργηθήσεται · passes away
    …but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
  13. 1 Corinthians 13:11κατήργηκα · I set aside
    When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
  14. 1 Corinthians 15:24καταργήσῃ · He has destroyed
    Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
  15. 1 Corinthians 15:26καταργεῖται · to be destroyed [is]
    The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
  16. 2 Corinthians 3:7καταργουμένην · fleeting
    Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
  17. 2 Corinthians 3:11καταργούμενον · was fading away
    For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
  18. 2 Corinthians 3:13καταργουμένου · was fading away
    We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
  19. 2 Corinthians 3:14καταργεῖται · can it be removed
    But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
  20. Galatians 3:17καταργῆσαι · to nullify
    What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
  21. Galatians 5:4κατηργήθητε · have been severed
    You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
  22. Galatians 5:11κατήργηται · has been abolished
    Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
  23. Ephesians 2:15καταργήσας · by abolishing
    …by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
  24. 2 Thessalonians 2:8καταργήσει · annihilate
    And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
  25. 2 Timothy 1:10καταργήσαντος · [who] has abolished
    And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
  26. Hebrews 2:14καταργήσῃ · He might destroy
    Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,