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Strong's G2666 καταπίνω (katapino)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2666 — chaphash (“be free”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2666
Language Greek
Linked Usages 46
Books 23

Strong's G2666 Quick Answer

Strong's G2666 καταπίνω (katapino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katapino (kat-ap-ee'-no) v. 1. to drink down, i.e. gulp entire {literally or figuratively} It has 46 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include swallowed, swallow, drowned, and devour. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
katapino (kat-ap-ee'-no) v. 1. to drink down, i.e. gulp entire {literally or figuratively}
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
swallowed, swallow, drowned, and devour

Meaning and Definition

katapino (kat-ap-ee'-no) v. 1. to drink down, i.e. gulp entire {literally or figuratively} [from G2596 and G4095] KJV: devour, drown, swallow (up) Root(s): G2596, G4095

Original Word
καταπίνω
Transliteration
katapino
Derivation
Root: πίνω R1: 2596 R2: 4095
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2666. 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 swallow

Usage: κατα-πίνω [in LXX chiefly for בָּלַע ;] __1. to drink down, swallow: Mat.23:24, Rev.12:16. __2. to devour: 1Pe.5:8. Metaphorical, to swallow up, consume: pass., 1Co.15:54 (LXX), 2Co.2:7 5:4, Heb.11:29.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2666 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katapino, 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.

swallowed 1 Corinthians 15:54 devour 1 Peter 5:8 drowned Hebrews 11:29 swallow Matthew 23:24

How Strong's G2666 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 36 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.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2666 (καταπίνω) appears 39 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2666 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 G2666 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 23:24 KJV

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

1 Corinthians 15:54 KJV

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

2 Corinthians 2:7 KJV

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Strong's G2666 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

36 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 41:7 Septuagint / Brenton

And the seven thin ears and blasted with the wind devoured the seven choice and full ears; and Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.

Genesis 41:24 Septuagint / Brenton

And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven fine and full ears: so I spoke to the interpreters, and there was no one to explain it to me.

Exodus 7:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.

Strong's G2666 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 6:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him.

Wisdom of Sirach 23:17 Septuagint / Brenton

All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, He will not leave off till he die.

Strong's G2666 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 101:5 Septuagint / Brenton

in sore trouble ? And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2666.

Genesis 41:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven thin ears and blasted with the wind devoured the seven choice and full ears; and Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
Genesis 41:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven thin and blasted ears devoured the seven fine and full ears: so I spoke to the interpreters, and there was no one to explain it to me.
Exodus 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.
Exodus 15:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou stretchedst forth thy right hand, The earth swallowed them up.
Numbers 16:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.
Numbers 16:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Korah, and their cattle.
Numbers 16:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Numbers 21:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon, And has consumed as far as Moab, And devoured the pillars of Arnon.
Numbers 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Korah, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign.
Deuteronomy 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and all things that he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, whom the earth opening her mouth swallowed up, and their houses, and their tents, and all their substance that was with them, in the midst of all Israel:
2 Kingdoms 17:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now send quickly and report to David, saying, Lodge not this night in Araboth of the wilderness: even go and make haste, lest one swallow up the king, and all the people with him.
Job 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How long dost thou not let me alone, Nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
Job 8:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If God should destroy him, his place shall deny him. Hast thou not seen such things,
Psalms 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, it is pleasing to our soul: Neither let them say, We have devoured him.
Psalms 57:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, He shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
Psalms 68:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not the waterflood drown me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; Neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
Psalms 105:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And closed upon the congregation of Abiram.
Psalms 106:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.
Psalms 123:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Verily they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:
Psalms 140:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: They shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
Proverbs 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, And remove the memorial of him from the earth:
Proverbs 19:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that becomes surety for a foolish child will despise the ordinance: And the mouth of ungodly men shall drink down judgments.
Proverbs 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A desirable treasure will rest on the mouth of the wise; But foolish men will swallow it up.
Proverbs 23:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So he eats and drinks As if anyone should swallow a hair, And do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him:
Isaiah 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
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 25:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Death has prevailed and swallowed men up; but again the Lord God has taken away every tear from every face. He has taken away the reproach of his people from all the earth: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
Isaiah 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
Isaiah 49:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.
Jeremiah 28:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
Jeremiah 28:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:
Lamentations 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, And said, We have swallowed her up: Moreover this is the day which we looked for; We have found it, we have seen it.
Lamentations 3:49 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eye is drowned with tears, And I will not be silent, So that there shall be no rest,
Hosea 8:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.
Jonah 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.
Habakkuk 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?
Matthew 23:24 New Testament, KJV
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
1 Corinthians 15:54 New Testament, KJV
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
2 Corinthians 2:7 New Testament, KJV
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2 Corinthians 5:4 New Testament, KJV
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Hebrews 11:29 New Testament, KJV
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
1 Peter 5:8 New Testament, KJV
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Revelation 12:16 New Testament, KJV
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Tobit 6:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, He will not leave off till he die.
1 Enoch 101:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
in sore trouble ? And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go upon the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2666, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2666 FAQ

What does katapino (καταπίνω) mean?

Katapino (Strong's G2666) is a Greek word most simply glossed "devour". katapino (kat-ap-ee'-no) v. 1. to drink down, i.e. gulp entire {literally or figuratively}

How many times is katapino (καταπίνω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's G2666 across 23 books.

Where can I study katapino (καταπίνω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2666 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate katapino (καταπίνω)?

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

Does Strong's G2666 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 36 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2666, with linked reader references where each row is available.