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Strong's G2662 καταπατέω (katapateo)

Katapateo means “trample” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2662 — chephri (“Hepherites”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2662
Language Greek
Linked Usages 46
Books 18

Strong's G2662 Quick Answer

Strong's G2662 καταπατέω (katapateo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katapateo (kat-ap-at-eh'-o) v. 1. to trample down 2. (figuratively) to reject with disdain It has 46 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include trample and down. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
katapateo (kat-ap-at-eh'-o) v. 1. to trample down 2. (figuratively) to reject with disdain
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
trample and down

Meaning and Definition

katapateo (kat-ap-at-eh'-o) v. 1. to trample down 2. (figuratively) to reject with disdain [from G2596 and G3961] KJV: trample, tread (down, underfoot) Root(s): G2596, G3961

Original Word
καταπατέω
Transliteration
katapateo
Derivation
Root: πατέω R1: 2596 R2: 3961
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2662. 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 trample

Usage: κατα-πατέω, -ῶ [in LXX for דָּרַךְ, רָמַס, שָׁאַף, etc. ;] to tread down, trample under foot: Mat.7:6, Luk.12:1; pass., Mat.5:13, Luk.8:5. Metaphorical, τ. υἱὸν τ. θεοῦ, Heb.10:29.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2662 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katapateo, 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 Luke 8:5 trample Matthew 7:6

How Strong's G2662 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 35 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 G2662 (καταπατέω) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2662 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 G2662 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:13 KJV

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Matthew 7:6 KJV

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Luke 8:5 KJV

A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

Strong's G2662 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

35 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 5:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

Judges 5:21 Septuagint / Brenton

The brook of Kishon swept them away, The ancient brook, the brook Kishon: My mighty soul will trample him down.

1 Kingdoms 14:48 Septuagint / Brenton

And he wrought valiantly, and smote Amalek, and rescued Israel out of the hand of them that trampled on him.

Strong's G2662 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 3:45 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

1 Maccabees 3:51 Septuagint / Brenton

For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.

1 Maccabees 4:60 Septuagint / Brenton

At that time also they built up the Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down, as they had done before.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2662.

Genesis 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.
Judges 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The brook of Kishon swept them away, The ancient brook, the brook Kishon: My mighty soul will trample him down.
1 Kingdoms 14:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he wrought valiantly, and smote Amalek, and rescued Israel out of the hand of them that trampled on him.
1 Kingdoms 17:53 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men of Israel returned from pursuing after the Philistines, and they destroyed their camp.
1 Kingdoms 23:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines war in Keilah, and they rob, they trample on the threshing floors.
2 Chronicles 25:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife; but, behold, the wild beasts of the field that are in Lebanon shall come: and the wild beasts did come, and trod down the thistle.
Job 39:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, And the wild beasts of the field trample them.
Psalms 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; And let him trample my life on the ground, And lay my glory in the dust. Pause.
Psalms 55:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; All the day long he warring has afflicted me.
Psalms 55:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; For there are many warring against me.
Psalms 56:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He sent from heaven and saved me; He gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth;
Psalms 90:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk: And thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.
Psalms 138:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; Even the night was light in my luxury.
Isaiah 10:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.
Isaiah 16:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.
Isaiah 16:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The plains of Heshbon shall mourn, the vine of Sibmah: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.
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 18:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
Isaiah 18:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and forever; a nation hoping and yet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.
Isaiah 25:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with wagons.
Isaiah 28:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.
Isaiah 28:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for I will not be wroth with you forever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.
Isaiah 41:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter’s clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down.
Isaiah 63:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.
Isaiah 63:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.
Isaiah 63:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that we may inherit a small part of thy holy mountain.
Ezekiel 26:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength.
Ezekiel 32:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as the serpent that is in the sea: and thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.
Ezekiel 32:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it anymore, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it.
Ezekiel 34:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And is it not enough for you that ye fed on the good pasture, that ye trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that ye drank the standing water, that ye disturbed the residue with your feet?
Hosea 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgment under foot, for he began to go after vanities.
Amos 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hear ye this word, ye heifers of the land of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.
Amos 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.
Zechariah 12:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a trodden stone to all the nations: everyone that tramples on it shall utterly mock at it, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
Malachi 3:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty.
Matthew 5:13 New Testament, KJV
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew 7:6 New Testament, KJV
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Luke 8:5 New Testament, KJV
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Luke 12:1 New Testament, KJV
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Hebrews 10:29 New Testament, KJV
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
1 Maccabees 3:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
1 Maccabees 3:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.
1 Maccabees 4:60 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
At that time also they built up the Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down, as they had done before.
2 Maccabees 8:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple profaned of ungodly men;
3 Maccabees 2:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.
3 Maccabees 6:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2662, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 13 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2662 FAQ

What does katapateo (καταπατέω) mean?

Katapateo (Strong's G2662) is a Greek word most simply glossed "trample". katapateo (kat-ap-at-eh'-o) v. 1. to trample down 2. (figuratively) to reject with disdain

How many times is katapateo (καταπατέω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's G2662 across 18 books.

Where can I study katapateo (καταπατέω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2662 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate katapateo (καταπατέω)?

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

Does Strong's G2662 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 35 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2662, with linked reader references where each row is available.