καταργέω katargeō

Greek word for “to abate” · Strong’s G2673 · used 27 times in 26 verses

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Meaning

κατ-αργέω, -ῶ; (κατά, causative, ἀργός = ἀ-εργός);

How it is translated

Glosses given for katargeō in context, with how often each is used:

• will be abated 2
• fading away 2
• should it use up? 1
• will nullify? 1
• do we nullify 1
• has been nullified 1
• may be annulled 1
• has been cleared 1
• have been released 1
• may annul 1
• coming to naught 1
• will destroy 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 3 (4), 1 Corinthians 13 (3), Romans 3 (2), Romans 7 (2), 1 Corinthians 15 (2), Galatians 5 (2), Luke 13 (1), Romans 4 (1), Romans 6 (1), 1 Corinthians 1 (1)

Forms

• καταργήσει 3
• κατήργηται 3
• καταργήσῃ 3
• καταργηθήσεται 2
• καταργεῖται 2
• καταργεῖ 1
• καταργοῦμεν 1
• καταργηθῇ 1
• κατηργήθημεν 1
• καταργουμένων 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with katargeō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• νόμος nomos “law” 7
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 4
• κάλυμμα kalumma “veil” 2
• ἐπιφάνεια epiphaneia “appearing” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 5
• γράμμα gramma “something written” 2
• ἀτενίζω atenizō “to gaze” 2
• παλαιός palaios “old” 2
• τέλειος teleios “perfect” 2
• δουλεύω douleuō “be a slave” 2
• διαθήκη diathēkē “covenant” 2
• πίστις pistis “faith” 3

Key verses

The verses using katargeō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Romans 3:3 — For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
• Romans 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Romans 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
• 1 Corinthians 2:6 — Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
• 1 Corinthians 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for…
• 1 Corinthians 15:24 — Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
• 2 Corinthians 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses…
• 2 Corinthians 3:14 — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• Galatians 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it…
• 2 Thessalonians 2:8 — And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• 2 Timothy 1:10 — But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the…
• Hebrews 2:14 — Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.