Katalyma means “guestchamber” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2646 — chuppah (“canopy”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2646 κατάλυμα (kataluma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataluma (kat-al'-oo-mah) n. 1. (properly) a dissolution (breaking up of a journey) 2. (by implication) a lodging-place It has 16 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include guestchamber and inn. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kataluma (kat-al'-oo-mah) n. 1. (properly) a dissolution (breaking up of a journey) 2. (by implication) a lodging-place [from G2647] KJV: guestchamber, inn Root(s): G2647
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2646. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
guest room/inn
Usage: κατά-λυμα, -τος, τό (καταλύω), [in LXX: Exo.4:24 (מָלוֹן), 1Ki.9:22 (לִשְׁכָּה), etc. ;] __1. = cl. καταγώγιον (cf. πανδοχεῖον), an inn, lodgingplace: Luk.2:7 (so Ex, l.with, and MGr.). __2. a guest-room (1Sam,l.with): Mrk.14:14, Luk.22:11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataluma, 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, 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 G2646 (κατάλυμα) appears 13 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
11 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord met him by the way in the inn, and sought to slay him.
Thou hast guided in thy righteousness this thy people whom thou hast redeemed, By thy strength thou hast called them into thy holy resting place.
And she said, Thine handmaid has found favor in thine eyes: and the woman went her way, and entered into her lodging, and ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was no more sad.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now Jerusalem was laid void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the stronghold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.
He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, And shall lodge in a lodging where good things are.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2646.
And it came to pass that the angel of the Lord met him by the way in the inn, and sought to slay him.
Thou hast guided in thy righteousness this thy people whom thou hast redeemed, By thy strength thou hast called them into thy holy resting place.
And she said, Thine handmaid has found favor in thine eyes: and the woman went her way, and entered into her lodging, and ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was no more sad.
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men.
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt to this day, but I have been walking in a lodge and in a tent,
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up Israel until this day, but I have been in a tabernacle and a tent,
and the plan of the courses of the priests and Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and of the stores of vessels for ministration of the service of the house of the Lord.
O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?
He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities thereof, resting places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodging, where were the breasts of thy youth.
And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Now Jerusalem was laid void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the stronghold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.
He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, And shall lodge in a lodging where good things are.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2646, grouped by book.
Katalyma (Strong's G2646) is a Greek word most simply glossed "guestchamber". kataluma (kat-al'-oo-mah) n. 1. (properly) a dissolution (breaking up of a journey) 2. (by implication) a lodging-place
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's G2646 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2646 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as guestchamber and inn. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 11 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2646, with linked reader references where each row is available.