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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.

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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 WEB as: away ×2, will be done away ×1, they will cease ×1, be abolished is ×1, are coming to nothing ×1, away was ×1, who abolished ×1, having abolished ×1, nullify ×1, do we then nullify ×1 (11 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)

  1. Luke 13:7 He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’ verse | pericope | chapter
  2. Romans 3:3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
    katargēsei – future (expected to happen) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-FAI-3S
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  3. Romans 3:31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
    katargoumen – present (ongoing or repeated action) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · we V-PAI-1P
    verse | pericope | chapter
  4. Romans 4:14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. verse | pericope | chapter
  5. Romans 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. verse | pericope | chapter
  6. Romans 7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. verse | pericope | chapter
  7. Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. verse | pericope | chapter
  8. 1 Corinthians 1:28 God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist, verse | pericope | chapter
  9. 1 Corinthians 2:6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world 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) V-PPP-GPM
    verse | pericope | chapter
  10. 1 Corinthians 6:13 “Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. verse | pericope | chapter
  11. 1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
    katargēthēsontai – future (expected to happen) · passive (done to them) · indicative (stated as fact) · they V-FPI-3P
    verse | pericope | chapter
  12. 1 Corinthians 13:10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
    katargēthēsetai – future (expected to happen) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-FPI-3S
    verse | pericope | chapter
  13. 1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
    katērgēka – perfect (completed, with a lasting result) · active (the subject does it) · indicative (stated as fact) · I V-RAI-1S
    verse | pericope | chapter
  14. 1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father, when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. verse | pericope | chapter
  15. 1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
    katargeitai – present (ongoing or repeated action) · passive (done to him, her or it) · indicative (stated as fact) · he, she or it V-PPI-3S
    verse | pericope | chapter
  16. 2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away, verse | pericope | chapter
  17. 2 Corinthians 3:11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
    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) V-PPP-NSN
    verse | pericope | chapter
  18. 2 Corinthians 3:13 and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face so that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing 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) V-PPP-GSN
    verse | pericope | chapter
  19. 2 Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away. verse | pericope | chapter
  20. Galatians 3:17 Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. verse | pericope | chapter
  21. Galatians 5:4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace. verse | pericope | chapter
  22. Galatians 5:11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed. verse | pericope | chapter
  23. Ephesians 2:15 having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,
    katargēsas – 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) V-AAP-NSM
    verse | pericope | chapter
  24. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the manifestation of his coming; verse | pericope | chapter
  25. 2 Timothy 1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
    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) V-AAP-GSM
    verse | pericope | chapter
  26. Hebrews 2:14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, verse | pericope | chapter