Katoteros means “lower” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2737 — charuz (“chain”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2737 κατώτερος (katoteros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katoteros (kat-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. inferior (locally, of Hades) [comparative from G2736] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include lower. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
katoteros (kat-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. inferior (locally, of Hades) [comparative from G2736] KJV: lower Root(s): G2736
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2737. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
lower
Usage: κατώτερος, -έρα, -ερον (κάτω), [in LXX for תַּחְתּוֹן, תַּחְתִּי ;] lower; τὰ. κ. τῆς γῆς (see AR, Eph., l.with; for rendering this lower earth, see ICC, Eph, l.with), the lower parts of the earth (cf. Psa.139:15; cf. also MGr., ἡ κάτου γῆ, the underworld, Thumb, MGV, 334): Eph.4:9.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katoteros, 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 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 G2737 (κατώτερος) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2737.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2737, grouped by book.
Katoteros (Strong's G2737) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lower". katoteros (kat-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. inferior (locally, of Hades) [comparative from G2736]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's G2737 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2737 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lower. 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 for Strong's G2737, with linked reader references where each row is available.