καθαιρέω kathairéō
Meaning
to lower (or with violence) demolish (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version: cast (pull, put, take) down, destroy
Derivation: from G2596 (κατά) and G138 (αἱρέομαι) (including its alternate);
Where it is used
- Mark 15:36 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine. He put it on a reed and held it up for Jesus to drink, saying, “Leave Him alone. Let us see if Elijah comes to take Him down.”
- Mark 15:46 So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
- Luke 1:52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
- Luke 12:18 Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
- Luke 23:53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
- Acts 13:19 And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
- Acts 13:29 When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
- Acts 19:27 There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”
- 2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.