2702. katapheró
Strong's Concordance
katapheró: to bring down
Original Word: καταφέρω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: katapheró
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-af-er'-o)
Short Definition: I bring down, oppress
Definition: I bear down, overpower; I give a vote or verdict, bring charges.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2702: καταφέρω

καταφέρω; 1 aorist κατήνεγκα; passive, present καταφέρομαι; 1 aorist κατηνεχθην; (from Homer down); to bear down, bring down, cast down: ψῆφον, properly, to cast a pebble or calculus namely, into the urn, i. e. to give one's vote, to approve, Acts 26:10; αἰτιώματα κατά τίνος (see κατά, I. 2 b. (but the critical editions reject κατά κτλ.)), Acts 25:7 L T Tr WH. Passive, to be borne down, to sink (from the window to the pavement), ἀπό τοῦ ὕπνου, from sleep (from the effect of his deep sleep (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 371 (348))), Acts 20:9b; metaphorically, to be weighed down by, overcome, carried away, καταφερόμενος ὕπνῳ βάθει, sunk in a deep sleep, Acts 20:9a; of a different sort (contra Winer's Grammar, 431 (401)) is the expression in secular authors, καταφέρομαι εἰς ὕπνον, to sink into sleep, drop asleep, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 5; Herodian, 2, 1, 3 (2); 9, 6 (5); τοισιν ὑπνοισιν, Hipp., p. 1137 c. ((Kühn iii., p. 539)), and in the same sense simply καταφέρομαι; cf. (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2 d.); Stephanus' Thesaurus 4 col. 1286 (where the passage from Acts is fully discussed).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
fall, give, sink down.

From kata and phero (including its alternate); to bear down, i.e. (figuratively) overcome (with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote -- fall, give, sink down.

see GREEK kata

see GREEK phero

Forms and Transliterations
καταφερομένη καταφερόμενον καταφερομενος καταφερόμενος καταφεροντες καταφέροντες κατενέγκη κατενεχθεις κατενεχθείς κατενεχθεὶς κατεφέρετο κατηνεγκα κατήνεγκα κατήνεγκαν κατηνέχθη κατήνεχθη katapheromenos katapherómenos katapherontes kataphérontes katenechtheis katenechtheìs katenenka katēnenka katḗnenka
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4 Occurrences


καταφερόμενος — 1 Occ.
καταφέροντες — 1 Occ.
κατήνεγκα — 1 Occ.
κατενεχθεὶς — 1 Occ.

Acts 20:9 V-PPM/P-NMS
GRK: τῆς θυρίδος καταφερόμενος ὕπνῳ βαθεῖ
NAS: on the window sill, sinking into a deep
KJV: Eutychus, being fallen into a deep
INT: the window overpowered by sleep deep

Acts 20:9 V-APP-NMS
GRK: ἐπὶ πλεῖον κατενεχθεὶς ἀπὸ τοῦ
NAS: kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep
KJV: preaching, he sunk down with
INT: on more having been overpowered by the

Acts 25:7 V-PPA-NMP
GRK: βαρέα αἰτιώματα καταφέροντες ἃ οὐκ
NAS: stood around him, bringing many
INT: weighty charges bringing which not

Acts 26:10 V-AIA-1S
GRK: τε αὐτῶν κατήνεγκα ψῆφον
NAS: when they were being put to death I cast my vote
KJV: were put to death, I gave my voice
INT: moreover they I cast against [them] a vote

4 Occurrences

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