Strong's Number G2647

καταλύω

kataluo · kat-al-oo'-o

Transliteration:

kataluo{kat-al-oo'-o}

Word Origin:

from 2596 and 3089

TDNT:

4:338,543

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's Definition:

to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646 (κατάλυμα)) to halt for the night

Usage in the KJV:

destroy 9, throw down 3, lodge 1, guest 1, come to nought 1, overthrow 1, dissolve 1

Total: 17
Occurs 17 times in the Greek text.

Definition:

to dissolve, disunite
1. (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish
2. metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught
  1. to subvert, overthrow
    1. of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard
3. of travellers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, more correctly from the fact that the traveller's garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)