Katachraomai means “abuse” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2710 — chaqaq (“grave”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2710 καταχράομαι (katachraomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katachraomai (kat-akh-rah'-om-ai) v. 1. to overuse, i.e. misuse [from G2596 and G5530] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include abuse. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katachraomai (kat-akh-rah'-om-ai) v. 1. to overuse, i.e. misuse [from G2596 and G5530] KJV: abuse Root(s): G2596, G5530
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2710. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to use up
Usage: κατα-χράομαι, -ῶμαι [in LXX: Ep. Je.28, 3Ma.4:5 3Mac 5:22 * ;] to make full use of, use to the uttermost, use up: 1Co.7:31; with dative, 1Co.9:18 (for other senses, see LS, see word)..† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katachraomai, 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 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.
Strong's G2710 (καταχράομαι) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A multitude of aged hoary-haired men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.
Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them, as unto dead men.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2710.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
A multitude of aged hoary-haired men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.
Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them, as unto dead men.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2710, grouped by book.
Katachraomai (Strong's G2710) is a Greek word most simply glossed "abuse". katachraomai (kat-akh-rah'-om-ai) v. 1. to overuse, i.e. misuse [from G2596 and G5530]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G2710 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2710 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as abuse. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2710, with linked reader references where each row is available.