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Strong's G2598 καταβάλλω (kataballo)

Kataballo means “cast down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2598 — chanukkah (“initiation”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2598
Language Greek
Linked Usages 47
Books 19

Strong's G2598 Quick Answer

Strong's G2598 καταβάλλω (kataballo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataballo (kat-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw down [from G2596 and G906] It has 47 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include down and laying. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
kataballo (kat-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw down [from G2596 and G906]
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
down and laying

Meaning and Definition

kataballo (kat-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw down [from G2596 and G906] KJV: cast down, lay Root(s): G2596, G906

Original Word
καταβάλλω
Transliteration
kataballo
Derivation
Root: βάλλω R1: 2596 R2: 906
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2598. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to lay/throw down

Usage: κατα-βάλλω [in LXX chiefly for נָפַל hi. ;] __1. to cast down, prostrate: metaphorically, pass., 2Co.4:9. __2. to put down, lay down: metaphorically, mid., with accusative, θεμέλιον, Heb.6:1.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2598 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataballo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

down 2 Corinthians 4:9 laying Hebrews 6:1

How Strong's G2598 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 31 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2598 (καταβάλλω) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2598 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2598 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

Hebrews 6:1 KJV

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Revelation 12:10 KJV

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Strong's G2598 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

31 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

2 Kingdoms 20:15 Septuagint / Brenton

And they came and besieged him in Abel and Beth-maacah: and they raised a mound against the city and it stood close to the wall; and all the people with Joab proposed to throw down the wall.

4 Kingdoms 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And ye shall smite every strong city, and ye shall cut down every good tree, and ye shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece of land with stones.

4 Kingdoms 3:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed the land, and smote it.

Strong's G2598 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 9:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

1 Maccabees 4:33 Septuagint / Brenton

cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.

2 Maccabees 2:13 Septuagint / Brenton

The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Nehemiah; and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2598.

2 Kingdoms 20:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they came and besieged him in Abel and Beth-maacah: and they raised a mound against the city and it stood close to the wall; and all the people with Joab proposed to throw down the wall.
4 Kingdoms 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall smite every strong city, and ye shall cut down every good tree, and ye shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece of land with stones.
4 Kingdoms 3:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed the land, and smote it.
4 Kingdoms 6:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.
4 Kingdoms 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.
2 Chronicles 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty man and warrior, and leader and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria: and he returned with shame of face to his own land and came into the house of his god: and some of them that came out of his bowels slew him with the sword.
Job 12:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If he should cast down, who will build up? If he should shut up against men, who shall open?
Job 16:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In his anger he has cast me down; He has gnashed his teeth upon me: The weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
Job 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They overthrew me with fall upon fall: They ran upon me in their might.
Psalms 36:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Sinners have drawn their swords, They have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy one, And to slay the upright in heart.
Psalms 72:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: Thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.
Psalms 105:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So he lifted up his hand against them, To cast them down in the wilderness;
Psalms 105:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to cast down their seed among the nations, And to scatter them in the countries.
Psalms 139:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; And thou shalt cast them down in afflictions: They shall not bear up under them.
Proverbs 7:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And those whom she has slain are innumerable.
Proverbs 18:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear casts down the slothful; And the souls of the effeminate shall hunger.
Proverbs 32:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 16:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; Heshbon and Elealeh have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall.
Isaiah 26:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who hast humbled and brought down them that dwell on high, thou shalt cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.
Jeremiah 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy the counsel of Judah and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.
Ezekiel 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour.
Ezekiel 26:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.
Ezekiel 26:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea.
Ezekiel 29:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.
Ezekiel 30:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and will smite down his sword out of his hand.
Ezekiel 31:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
Ezekiel 32:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down thy strength: they are all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.
Ezekiel 39:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy thy bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel;
Daniel 11:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down many thousands; but he shall not prevail.
2 Corinthians 4:9 New Testament, KJV
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Hebrews 6:1 New Testament, KJV
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Revelation 12:10 New Testament, KJV
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Judith 9:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth, and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.
1 Maccabees 4:33 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.
2 Maccabees 2:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Nehemiah; and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts.
2 Maccabees 4:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the church robber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.
2 Maccabees 5:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
but Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.
2 Maccabees 8:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but our confidence is in the Almighty God, who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world.
4 Maccabees 12:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:
Wisdom of Sirach 1:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And bring dishonor upon thy soul, And so the Lord discover thy secrets, And cast thee down in the midst of the congregation, Because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, But thy heart is full of deceit.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Offend not against the multitude of a city, And then thou shalt not cast thyself down among the people.
Wisdom of Sirach 8:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Strive not with an angry man, And go not with him into a solitary place: For blood is as nothing in his sight; And where there is no help, he will overthrow thee.
Wisdom of Sirach 14:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As of the green leaves on a thick tree, Some fall, and some grow: So is the generation of flesh and blood, One cometh to an end, and another is born.
Wisdom of Sirach 47:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? And did he not take away reproach from the people, When he lifted up his hand with the stone in the sling, And beat down the boasting of Goliath?
Baruch 2:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings,

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2598, grouped by book.

2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2598 FAQ

What does kataballo (καταβάλλω) mean?

Kataballo (Strong's G2598) is a Greek word most simply glossed "cast down". kataballo (kat-ab-al'-lo) v. 1. to throw down [from G2596 and G906]

How many times is kataballo (καταβάλλω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's G2598 across 19 books.

Where can I study kataballo (καταβάλλω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2598 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate kataballo (καταβάλλω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as down and laying. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2598 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 31 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2598, with linked reader references where each row is available.