Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
remnant
Usage: κατά-λειμμα, -τος, τό (καταλείπω), [in LXX far שָׁאַר (Isa.10:22 14:22), שְׁאֵרִית, etc. ;] a remnant: Rom.9:27, Rec. (for ὑπόλειμμα, which see).† (AS)
Kataleimma means “remnant” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2640 — chocer (“in want of”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2640 κατάλειμμα (kataleimma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataleimma (kat-al'-ime-mah) n. 1. a remainder 2. (by implication) a few It has 21 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include remnant. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
kataleimma (kat-al'-ime-mah) n. 1. a remainder 2. (by implication) a few [from G2641] KJV: remnant Root(s): G2641
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remnant
Usage: κατά-λειμμα, -τος, τό (καταλείπω), [in LXX far שָׁאַר (Isa.10:22 14:22), שְׁאֵרִית, etc. ;] a remnant: Rom.9:27, Rec. (for ὑπόλειμμα, which see).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataleimma, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 G2640 (κατάλειμμα) appears 20 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.
Then went down the remnant to the strong, The people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.
And Samuel arose, and departed from Gilgal, and the remnant of the people went after Saul to meet him after the men of war, when they had come out of Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stone of Ophir.
to wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;
Noah was found perfect and righteous; In the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; Therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth, When the flood came.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2640.
For God sent me before you, that there might be left to you a remnant upon the earth, even to nourish a great remnant of you.
Then went down the remnant to the strong, The people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me.
And Samuel arose, and departed from Gilgal, and the remnant of the people went after Saul to meet him after the men of war, when they had come out of Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.
And behold the whole family rose up against thy handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.
Howbeit for David’s sake the Lord gave him a remnant, that he might establish his children after him, and might establish Jerusalem.
And Jehu smote all that were left of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his acquaintance, and his priests, so as not to leave him any remnant.
For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, And the fire shall devour what is left of their property.
And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.
And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.
And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy thy seed with hunger, and shall destroy thy remnant.
And this shall be a sign to thee, Eat this year what thou hast sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
For grape-gatherers are come, who shall not leave thee a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon thy possessions.
And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and those that were in Edom, and those that were in all the rest of the country, heard that the king of Babylon had granted a remnant to Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stone of Ophir.
to wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;
Noah was found perfect and righteous; In the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; Therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth, When the flood came.
But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, Neither shall any of his works perish, Neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, And the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: Wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, And out of him a root unto David.
shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2640, grouped by book.
Kataleimma (Strong's G2640) is a Greek word most simply glossed "remnant". kataleimma (kat-al'-ime-mah) n. 1. a remainder 2. (by implication) a few
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G2640 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2640 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as remnant. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2640, with linked reader references where each row is available.