καταργέω katargeō G2673
“I bring to naught, sever, abolish” — Dodson Greek Lexicon
Same root: Related words from the same root: 20 more words
Strong's Greek Dictionary (1890) says these words are built from one another, all going back to ἔργον ergon (G2041). Each line says which source links it. Words with a prefix are listed with their main word, not with the prefix. Related words can still differ in meaning.
- ἔργον ergon G2041 “work, labor, action, deed” head of this family (per Strong's: a primary word) in 161 verses
- ἐργάζομαι ergazomai G2038 “I word, trade, do” built from ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 39 verses
- κατεργάζομαι katergazomai G2716 “I work out, produce, accomplish” built from κατά G2596 + ἐργάζομαι G2038 (per Strong's) in 22 verses
- ἐνεργέω energeō G1754 “I work, accomplish, am operative” built from ἐνεργής, ἐναργής G1756 (per Strong's) in 19 verses
- ἐργάτης ergatēs G2040 “a field-laborer, workman” built from ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 15 verses
- συνεργός sunergos G4904 “a fellow worker” built from σύν G4862 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 13 verses
- ἐνέργεια energeia G1753 “working, activity” built from ἐνεργής, ἐναργής G1756 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 8 verses
- ἀργός argos G0692 “idle, lazy, thoughtless” built from ἀ- G0001 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 7 verses
- ἐργασία ergasia G2039 “working, activity, trade, performance” built from ἐργάτης G2040 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 6 verses
- συνεργέω sunergeō G4903 “I work together” built from συνεργός G4904 (per Strong's) in 5 verses
- ἐνεργής, ἐναργής energēs, enargēs G1756 “effective” built from ἐν G1722 + ἔργον G2041 (per Strong's) in 3 verses
- ἐνέργημα energēma G1755 “a working, an effect” built from ἐνεργέω G1754 (per Strong's) · Abbott-Smith agrees in 2 verses
Built from κατά kata G2596 + ἀργέω argeō G0691 (per Strong's). The first part is a prefix (a preposition or a short prefix such as “un-”), so the word is listed with the family of the last part only, never with the prefix.
Rendered in BSB as: nullify ×2, was fading away ×2, should it use up ×1, do we, then, nullify ×1, is worthless ×1, might be rendered powerless ×1, she is released ×1, we have been released ×1, are coming to nothing ×1, will destroy ×1, they will cease ×1, it will be dismissed ×1, passes away ×1, i set aside ×1, he has destroyed ×1, to be destroyed is ×1, fleeting ×1, can it be removed ×1, to nullify ×1, have been severed ×1 (27 links)
Each verse shows the form used there and its grammar in plain English. What do these terms mean?
Full definitions (source + licence)
Dodson Greek Lexicon [G2673]
(a) I make idle (inactive), make of no effect, annul, abolish, bring to naught, (b) I discharge, sever, separate from.
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26 verse(s)
- Luke 13:7 So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’katargei – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PAI-3S - Romans 3:3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?katargēsei – future (expected to happen) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-FAI-3S - Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.katargoumen – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · weverse | pericope | chapter
V-PAI-1P - Romans 4:14 For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,katērgētai – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-RPI-3S - Romans 6:6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.katargēthēa – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · passive (done to him, her or it) · subjunctive (possible / intended / 'if') · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-APS-3S - Romans 7:2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.katērgētai – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-RPI-3S - Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.katērgēthēmen – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · passive (done to us) · indicative (stated as fact) · weverse | pericope | chapter
V-API-1P - 1 Corinthians 1:28 He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,katargēsē – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · subjunctive (possible / intended / 'if') · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-AAS-3S - 1 Corinthians 2:6 Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.katargoumenōn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to the subject) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive plural masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PPP-GPM - 1 Corinthians 6:13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.katargēsei – future (expected to happen) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-FAI-3S - 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.katargēthēsontai – future (expected to happen) · passive (done to them) · indicative (stated as fact) · theyverse | pericope | chapter
V-FPI-3P - 1 Corinthians 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.katargēthēsetai – future (expected to happen) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-FPI-3S - 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.katērgēka – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · Iverse | pericope | chapter
V-RAI-1S - 1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.katargēsē – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · subjunctive (possible / intended / 'if') · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-AAS-3S - 1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.katargeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PPI-3S - 2 Corinthians 3:7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,katargoumenēn – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to the subject) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · accusative singular feminine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PPP-ASF - 2 Corinthians 3:11 For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!katargoumenon – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to the subject) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular neuter (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PPP-NSN - 2 Corinthians 3:13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.katargoumenou – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to the subject) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular neuter (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-PPP-GSN - 2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.katargeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-PPI-3S - Galatians 3:17 What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.katargēsai – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · infinitive ('to …' form)verse | pericope | chapter
V-AAN - Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.katērgēthēte – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · passive (done to you) · indicative (stated as fact) · you (plural)verse | pericope | chapter
V-API-2P - Galatians 5:11 Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.katērgētai – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-RPI-3S - Ephesians 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peacekatargēsas – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · nominative singular masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-AAP-NSM - 2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.katargēsei – future (expected to happen) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
V-FAI-3S - 2 Timothy 1:10 And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,katargēsantos – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · participle (verb used like an adjective) · genitive singular masculine (matches the word it goes with)verse | pericope | chapter
V-AAP-GSM - Hebrews 2:14 Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,katargēsē – aorist (a completed action, seen as a whole) · active (the subject does it) · subjunctive (possible / intended / 'if') · he, she or itverse | pericope | chapter
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