"take or bring down, Mk. 15:36, 46; Lk. 1:52; 23:53; Acts 13:29; tear down, destroy, Lk. 12:18; Acts 13:19; 19:27; 2 Cor. 10:4*"
Definition and meaning
take or bring down, Mk. 15:36, 46; Lk. 1:52; 23:53; Acts 13:29; tear down, destroy, Lk. 12:18; Acts 13:19; 19:27; 2 Cor. 10:4*
In the original Greek the word is written: καθαιρέω
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of kathaireo (G2507) across the King James Bible.
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
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Common questions
Strong's G2507 (kathaireo) is a Greek word that means: take or bring down, Mk. 15:36, 46; Lk. 1:52; 23:53; Acts 13:29; tear down, destroy, Lk. 12:18; Acts 13:19; 19:27; 2 Cor. 10:4* It appears 9 times in the King James Bible.
The word kathaireo (G2507) appears 9 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G2507 is kathaireo, a Greek word defined as: take or bring down, Mk. 15:36, 46; Lk. 1:52; 23:53; Acts 13:29; tear down, destroy, Lk. 12:18; Acts 13:19; 19:27; 2 Cor. 10:4*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
kathaireo is a Greek word found in the New Testament.