Strong's Concordance
katargeó: to render inoperative, abolish
Original Word: καταργέωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: katargeó
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-arg-eh'-o)
Definition: to render inoperative, abolish
Usage: (a) I make idle (inactive), make of no effect, annul, abolish, bring to naught, (b) I discharge, sever, separate from.
HELPS Word-studies
2673 katargéō (from 2596 /katá, "down to a point," intensifying 691 /argéō, "inactive, idle") – properly, idle down, rendering something inert ("completely inoperative"); i.e. being of no effect (totally without force, completely brought down); done away with, cause to cease and therefore abolish; make invalid, abrogate (bring to nought); "to make idle or inactive" (so also in Euripides, Phoen., 753, Abbott-Smith).
["2673 (katargéō) means 'to make completely inoperative' or 'to put out of use,' according to TDNT (1.453)" (J. Rodman Williams, Renewal Theology "God, the World & Redemption," 389).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
kata and
argeóDefinitionto render inoperative, abolish
NASB Translationabolished (4), abolishing (1), bring to an end (1), did away (1), do away (1), done away (4), fades away (1), fading (1), fading away (1), nullified (1), nullify (4), passing away (1), released (2), removed (1), render powerless (1), severed (1), use (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2673: καταργέωκαταργέω,
κατάργω; future
καταργήσω; 1 aorist
κατήργησα; perfect
κατήργηκα; passive, present
καταργοῦμαι; perfect
κατήργημαι; 1 aorist
κατηργήθην; 1 future
καταργηθήσομαι; causative of the verb
ἀργέω, equivalent to
ἀργόν (i. e.
ἀεργον (on the accent cf.
Chandler § 444))
ποιῶ; frequent with Paul, who uses it 25 times (elsewhere in N. T. only twice (Luke, Heb.), in the
Sept. 4 times (2 Esdr., see below)); 1.
to render idle, unemployed, inactive, inoperative:
τήν γῆν, to deprive of its strength, make barren (
A. V. cumber),
Luke 13:7; to cause a person or a thing to have no further efficiency; to deprive of force, influence, power (
A. V. bring to nought, make of none effect):
τί,
Romans 3:3;
1 Corinthians 1:28;
τινα,
1 Corinthians 2:6 (but in passive); diabolic powers,
1 Corinthians 15:24 (
Justin Martyr, Apology 2, 6); Antichrist,
2 Thessalonians 2:8;
τόν θάνατον,
2 Timothy 1:10 (Epistle of Barnabas 5, 6 [ET]);
τόν διάβολον,
Hebrews 2:14; passive
1 Corinthians 15:26; to make void,
τήν ἐπαγγελίαν,
Galatians 3:17; passive
Romans 4:14. 2.
to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish:
τί,
1 Corinthians 6:13;
1 Corinthians 13:11;
τόν νόμον,
Romans 3:31;
Ephesians 2:15;
τόν καιρόν τοῦ ἀνόμου, Epistle of Barnabas 15, 5 [ET]; passive
πόλεμος καταργεῖται ἐπουρανίων καί ἐπιγείων,
Ignatius ad Eph. 13, 2 [ET];
ἵνα καταργηθῇ τό σῶμα τῆς ἁμαρτίας, that the body of sin might be done away, i. e. not the material of the body, but the body so far forth as it is an instrument of sin; accordingly, that the body may cease to be an instrument of sin,
Romans 6:6. Passive
to cease, pass away, be done away: of things,
Galatians 5:11;
1 Corinthians 13:8, 10;
2 Corinthians 3:7, 11, 13f; of persons, followed by
ἀπό τίνος,
to be severed from, separated from, discharged from, loosed from, anyone;
to terminate all contact with one (a pregnant construction, cf.
Winers Grammar, 621 (577);
Buttmann, 322 (277)):
ἀπό τοῦ Χριστοῦ,
Galatians 5:4 (on the aorist cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 40, 5 b.);
ἀπό τοῦ νόμου,
Romans 7: (2 (
Relz omits
τοῦ νόμου)),6. The word is rarely met with in secular authors, as
Euripides, Phoen. 753
κατάργειν χερα, to make idle, i. e. to leave the hand unemployed;
Polybius quoted in
Suidas (s. v.
κατηργηκεναι)
τούς καιρούς, in the sense of
to let slip, leave unused; in the
Sept. four times for Chaldean
בַּטֵּל, to make to cease, i. e. restrain, check, hinder, 2 Esdr. 4:21, 23 2Esdr. 5:5 2Esdr. 6:8.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
abolish, cease, cumber, do awayFrom kata and argeo; to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively -- abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK argeo
Forms and Transliterations
καταργει καταργεί καταργεῖ καταργειται καταργείται καταργεῖται καταργηθη καταργηθή καταργηθῇ καταργηθήναι καταργηθησεται καταργηθήσεται καταργηθησονται καταργηθήσονται καταργησαι καταργήσαι καταργῆσαι καταργησαντος καταργήσαντος καταργησας καταργήσας καταργησει καταργήσει καταργηση καταργήση καταργήσῃ καταργουμεν καταργούμεν καταργοῦμεν καταργουμενην καταργουμένην καταργουμενον καταργούμενον καταργουμενου καταργουμένου καταργουμενων καταργουμένων κατηργηθημεν κατηργήθημεν κατηργηθητε κατηργήθητε κατηργηκα κατήργηκα κατήργησαν κατηργηται κατήργηται κατηργυρωμένοι katargei katargeî katargeitai katargeîtai katargesai katargêsai katargēsai katargē̂sai katargesantos katargēsantos katargḗsantos katargesas katargēsas katargḗsas katargese katargēsē katargesei katargēsei katargḗsei katargḗsēi katargethe katargēthē katargethêi katargēthē̂i katargethesetai katargethḗsetai katargēthēsetai katargēthḗsetai katargethesontai katargethḗsontai katargēthēsontai katargēthḗsontai katargoumen katargoûmen katargoumenen katargoumenēn katargouménen katargouménēn katargoumenon katargoumenōn katargouménon katargouménōn katargoúmenon katargoumenou katargouménou katergeka katērgēka katḗrgeka katḗrgēka katergetai katērgētai katḗrgetai katḗrgētai katergethemen katergḗthemen katērgēthēmen katērgḗthēmen katergethete katergḗthete katērgēthēte katērgḗthēteLinks
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