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καθαιρέω

Strong’s: G2507

Associated OET lemmas: καθαιρέω

Notes: There are undoubtedly some significant differences of meaning in this series in 13.38: ἀφαιρέω / 13.38: καθαιρέω / 13.38: λύω / 13.38: περιαιρέω, but it is not possible to determine the distinctive differences on the basis of existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: καθαιρέω; fut.; καθελῶ; καθαιρέω; aor.; καθεῖλον; καθαιρέω; ptc.; καθελών

Constructions: καθαιρέω; κατά; αἱρέομαι

Sense 1: to bring down, to lower

Semantic entry: 15.110

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Come/Go Down, Descend

Definition: to cause something or someone to be lowered or brought down

Notes: For another interpretation of καθαιρέω in RV MRK 15:36 · LV MRK 15:36 · Read together MRK 15:36, see 15.199: καθαιρέω.

MRK 15:36: RV MRK 15:36 · LV MRK 15:36 · Read together MRK 15:36

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OET-RV MRK 15:36

36 One of them ran, and soaked a sponge in some sour wine, then put it on a stick and held it up for Yeshua to drink, saying, “Hang on. Let’s see if Eliyah does come to get him down.”

OET-LV MRK 15:36

36 And someone having _run, and having _filled a_sponge with _wine _vinegar having _put _around around_a_reed, was _giving_ him _to _drink saying:
Leave it, we _may _see if Aʸlias is _coming to _take_ him _down.

Sense 2: to bring down, to take down

Semantic entry: 15.199

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Carry, Bear

Definition: to bring something down from one point to another

Notes: For another interpretation of καθαιρέω in RV MRK 15:36 · LV MRK 15:36 · Read together MRK 15:36, see 15.110: καθαιρέω.

MRK 15:36: RV MRK 15:36 · LV MRK 15:36 · Read together MRK 15:36

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OET-RV MRK 15:36

36 One of them ran, and soaked a sponge in some sour wine, then put it on a stick and held it up for Yeshua to drink, saying, “Hang on. Let’s see if Eliyah does come to get him down.”

OET-LV MRK 15:36

36 And someone having _run, and having _filled a_sponge with _wine _vinegar having _put _around around_a_reed, was _giving_ him _to _drink saying:
Leave it, we _may _see if Aʸlias is _coming to _take_ him _down.

MRK 15:46: RV MRK 15:46 · LV MRK 15:46 · Read together MRK 15:46

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OET-RV MRK 15:46

46 so Yosef and his companions went and bought some linen burial cloth and then, removing Yeshua’s body from the post, wrapped it in the cloth and placed it in a burial chamber that had been chiselled into a rockface. Then they rolled a rock across the opening.

OET-LV MRK 15:46

46 And having _bought a_linen _cloth, having _taken_ him _down, he _wrapped _in in _the linen _cloth, and laid him in a_tomb which was having _been _hewn out _of a_rock, and rolled a_stone to the door of _the tomb.

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

MRK: RV MRK 15:36 · RV MRK 15:46 · LV MRK 15:36 · LV MRK 15:46 · Read together MRK 15:36 · Read together MRK 15:46

LUK: RV LUK 1:52 · RV LUK 23:53 · LV LUK 1:52 · LV LUK 23:53 · Read together LUK 1:52 · Read together LUK 23:53

ACT: RV ACT 13:29 · LV ACT 13:29 · Read together ACT 13:29

Sense 3: to destroy, to tear down, destruction

Semantic entry: 20.54

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Destroy

Definition: to destroy completely by tearing down and dismantling

Notes: It may be important in rendering RV LUK 12:18 · LV LUK 12:18 · Read together LUK 12:18 to indicate clearly that there is purpose in tearing down the barns, and that presumably materials resulting from the dismantling of the barns would be used in building bigger ones.

LUK 12:18: RV LUK 12:18 · LV LUK 12:18 · Read together LUK 12:18

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OET-RV LUK 12:18

18 ‘Ah,’ he said, ‘I know what I’ll do. I’ll knock down my barns and build bigger ones, and then I’ll store all my grain and other produce in there.

OET-LV LUK 12:18

18 And he _said:
This I _will _be _doing:
I _will _be _taking _down the barns and greater barns of _me and I _will _be _building, I _will _be _gathering _together there all the grain and the good things of _me.

CO2 10:4: RV CO2 10:4 · LV CO2 10:4 · Read together CO2 10:4

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OET-RV CO2 10:4

4 because the weapons that we use in war are not physical but come with God’s power for tearing down anti-God institutions and nullifying their arguments.

OET-LV CO2 10:4

4 For/Because the weapons of _the warfare of _us are not fleshly, but powerful to_ the _god to the_tearing _down of _strongholds, arguments taking _down,

Sense 4: to destroy, to conquer

Semantic entry: 20.42

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Destroy

Definition: to destroy by conquering and overpowering

ACT 13:19: RV ACT 13:19 · LV ACT 13:19 · Read together ACT 13:19

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OET-RV ACT 13:19

19 Then having overthrown seven nations in Kena’an (Canaan), he passed on that land as an inheritance

OET-LV ACT 13:19

19 and having _taken _down seven nations in the_land of_Ⱪanaʼan/(Kinaˊan), he _parcelled _out the land of _them,

Sense 5: to do away with, to remove, to eliminate

Semantic entry: 13.38

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: to cause a state to cease{N:001}

ACT 19:27: RV ACT 19:27 · LV ACT 19:27 · Read together ACT 19:27

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OET-RV ACT 19:27

27 However it’s not only us and our trade that is coming into disrepute, but the temple of the great goddess Artemis is considered to be useless. This could result in a loss of power for the great Artemis that all of Asia Minor and the inhabited world have been worshipping.”

OET-LV ACT 19:27

27 But this is_ not only _risking _danger to _us, the trade to _come into disrepute, but also the temple of _the great goddess of _Artemis, to _be _counted for nothing, but of _the greatness of _her to _be _going also to _be _being _taken _down, whom all the Asia and the inhabited _world is _worshipping.