Katantao means “attain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2658 — chaphar (“dig”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2658 καταντάω (katantao) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katantao (kat-an-tah'-o) v. 1. to meet against, i.e. arrive at {literally or figuratively} It has 18 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include came, come, attain, and against. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katantao (kat-an-tah'-o) v. 1. to meet against, i.e. arrive at {literally or figuratively} [from G2596 and a derivative of G473] KJV: attain, come Root(s): G2596, G473
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to come to
Usage: κατ-αντάω, -ῶ [in LXX: 2Ki.3:29 (חוּל), 2Ma.4:21 2Mac 4:24 2Mac 4:44 2Mac 6:14 * ;] to come to, arrive at: before εἰς, with accusative loc., Act.16:1 18:19, 24 21:7 25:13 (see M, Pr., 132) Act.27:12 28:13; before ἀντικρύ, with genitive, Act.20:15. Metaphorical, before εἰς, with accusative of person(s), 1Co.10:11 14:36; id. with accusative of thing(s), to attain to: Act.26:7, Eph.4:13, Php.3:11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katantao, 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, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old 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.
Strong's G2658 (καταντάω) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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13 indexed usages in New Testament.
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all the house of his father; and let there not be wanting of the house of Joab one that has an issue, or a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that wants bread.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of King Ptolemy Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
Now when the king came to Tyre, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2658.
Let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all the house of his father; and let there not be wanting of the house of Joab one that has an issue, or a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that wants bread.
Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day.
And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of King Ptolemy Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:
But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.
Now when the king came to Tyre, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:
For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
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Katantao (Strong's G2658) is a Greek word most simply glossed "attain". katantao (kat-an-tah'-o) v. 1. to meet against, i.e. arrive at {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G2658 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2658 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 came, come, attain, and against. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2658, with linked reader references where each row is available.