Katabole means “conceive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2602 — chanamal (“frost”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2602 καταβολή (katabole) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katabole (kat-ab-ol-ay') n. 1. a deposition, i.e. founding 2. (figuratively) conception It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include foundation and conceive. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katabole (kat-ab-ol-ay') n. 1. a deposition, i.e. founding 2. (figuratively) conception [from G2598] KJV: conceive, foundation Root(s): G2598
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2602. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: κατα-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ (καταβάλλω), [in LXX: 2Ma.2:29 * ;] __1. a laying down: εἰς κ. σπέρματος, Heb.11:11 (EV, to conceive seed). __2. a foundation (of a house, ii Mac, l.with): metaphorically, ἀπὸ κ. κόσμου, Mat.13:35 (LXX) (om. ἀπὸ κ. κόσμου, WH, R, mg.), Mat.25:34, Luk.11:50, Heb.4:3 9:26, Rev.13:8 17:8; πρὸ κ. κόσμου, Jhn.17:24, Eph.1:4, 1Pe.1:20.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katabole, 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.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.
Strong's G2602 (καταβολή) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building: but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2602.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building: but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2602, grouped by book.
Katabole (Strong's G2602) is a Greek word most simply glossed "conceive". katabole (kat-ab-ol-ay') n. 1. a deposition, i.e. founding 2. (figuratively) conception
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G2602 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2602 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as foundation and conceive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2602, with linked reader references where each row is available.