Katerchomai means “depart” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2718 — charab (“destroy”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2718 κατέρχομαι (katerchomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katerchomai (kat-er'-khom-ai) v. 1. to come (or go) down {literally or figuratively} It has 18 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include came, went, come, departed, and descendeth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
katerchomai (kat-er'-khom-ai) v. 1. to come (or go) down {literally or figuratively} [from G2596 and G2064 (including its alternate)] KJV: come (down), depart, descend, go down, land Root(s): G2596, G2064
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2718. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to descend
Usage: κατ-έρχομαι [in LXX: Tob.1:22, א Tob.2:1, Est.3:13, Wis.11:22, 2Ma.11:29 * ;] to come down, go down: before εἰς, Luk.4:31, Act.8:5 13:4 15:30 19:1, Τ; ἀπό, Luk.9:37, Act.15:1 18:5 21:10; ἀπό and εἰς, Act.11:27 12:10; of coming to port by ship, Act.18:22 21:3 27:5; before πρός, with accusative of person(s), Act.9:32; metaphorically, of gifts from God, Jas.3:15.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katerchomai, 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 G2718 (κατέρχομαι) 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.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. him. myself with great moderation and with gentleness), to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the kings, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. of all others is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And Ahikar entreating for me, I returned to Nineveh. Now Ahikar was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Esar-haddon appointed him next unto him: and he was my brother’s son.
Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me; and I sat down to eat.
Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return home, and to follow your own business:
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2718.
And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. him. myself with great moderation and with gentleness), to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the kings, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. of all others is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.
And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.
Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.
And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
And Ahikar entreating for me, I returned to Nineveh. Now Ahikar was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Esar-haddon appointed him next unto him: and he was my brother’s son.
Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me; and I sat down to eat.
Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return home, and to follow your own business:
For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, Yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.
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Katerchomai (Strong's G2718) is a Greek word most simply glossed "depart". katerchomai (kat-er'-khom-ai) v. 1. to come (or go) down {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's G2718 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2718 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, went, come, departed, and descendeth. 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 G2718, with linked reader references where each row is available.