For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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κατά (κατ᾿, καθ᾽)
Vocabulary form:
κατά
Definition:
gen: against
acc: according to, throughout
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
473
GK:
2848
Cognates:
Cata is a common combining form meaning "down."
Catabasis is the declining stage of a disease.
Catalogue (katavlogoV) is a counting down in the sense of creating a list.
A catastrophe (katastrofhv) is a sudden disaster, a down turn.
Biblical Concordance
| Acts 18:15 | But if the questions are about a word and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.” |
| Acts 19:9 | But when some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and continued daily (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) to discourse in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. |
| Acts 19:16 | And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, took control and overpowered all seven of (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-gen) them, so that they fled, naked and wounded, out of that house. |
| Acts 19:20 | So the word of the Lord continued to spread and grow in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) power. |
| Acts 19:23 | About (kata | κατά | prep-acc) that time there broke out no little disturbance concerning the Way. |
| Acts 20:20 | how I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly from house to house (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc), |
| Acts 20:23 | except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me, saying that in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) every (kata | κατά | prep-acc) city imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me. |
| Acts 21:19 | After he greeted them, he began to relate one by (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) one what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. |
| Acts 21:21 | But they were told about you that you are teaching all the Jews who are among (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk according to our customs. |
| Acts 21:28 | crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against (kata | κατά | prep-gen) our people, our law, and this place. And besides, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has made this holy place unclean.” |
| Acts 22:3 | “I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the strictness of the ancestral law, being zealous for God just as you all are today. |
| Acts 22:12 | “Then a certain Ananias, a devout man according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, |
| Acts 22:19 | And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I used to go from (kata | κατά | prep-acc) one (kata | κατά | prep-acc) synagogue (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) another (kata | κατά | prep-acc) imprisoning and flogging those who believed in you. |
| Acts 23:3 | Then Paul said to him, “God is about to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you indeed sit judging me according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the law yet contrary to the law order me to be struck?” |
| Acts 23:19 | The commanding officer took him by the hand, drew him aside (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc) and asked, “What is it that you have to report to me?” |
| Acts 23:31 | So the soldiers, according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the directions given to them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. |
| Acts 24:1 | And after five days the high priest Ananias went down with some elders and a prosecuting attorney, one Tertullus; and they laid before the governor their case against (kata | κατά | prep-gen) Paul. |
| Acts 24:5 | For we found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. |
| Acts 24:12 | and they did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the city. |
| Acts 24:14 | But this I confess to you, that according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the Way, which they call a sect, thus I worship the God of our fathers, believing all things that are according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the Law and written in the Prophets, |
| Acts 24:22 | But Felix, knowing more exactly the facts concerning the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.” (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) |
| Acts 25:2 | So the chief priests and the Jewish leaders brought formal charges against (kata | κατά | prep-gen) Paul, begging him |
| Acts 25:3 | and asking him to do them a favor against (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-gen) Paul; they urged Festus to transfer him to Jerusalem, for they were forming a plot to kill him along (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the way. |
| Acts 25:14 | Since they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul’s case (kata | κατά | prep-acc) before the king, saying, “There is a man left by Felix, a prisoner. |
| Acts 25:15 | When I came to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a guilty verdict against (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-gen) him. |
| Acts 25:16 | I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to turn anyone over before the accused has met the accusers face to face (kata | κατά | prep-acc) and had an opportunity to make his defense against the charge. |
| Acts 25:23 | So on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall along with the commanding officers and the prominent men of the city, and when Festus had given the order, Paul was brought in. |
| Acts 25:27 | For it seems unreasonable to me, in sending a prisoner, not to report the charges against (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-gen) him.” |
| Acts 26:3 | especially because you are well acquainted with all the customs and controversies of (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently. |
| Acts 26:5 | for they have known from the first, if they are willing to go on record, that I lived as a Pharisee according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the strictest party of our religious system. |
| Acts 26:11 | And I punished them often in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and since I was so vehemently angry at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities. |
| Acts 26:13 | and at midday I saw on (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the way, O king, a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me. |
| Acts 27:2 | And embarking on a ship from Adramyttium, which was about to sail to ports along (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the coast of Asia, we put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica was with us. |
| Acts 27:5 | And when we had sailed across the open sea along (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. |
| Acts 27:7 | We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off (kata | κατά | prep-acc) Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off (kata | κατά | prep-acc) Salmone. |
| Acts 27:12 | And since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority made a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest (kata | κατά | prep-acc) and northwest (kata | κατά | prep-acc), and spend the winter there. |
| Acts 27:14 | But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-gen) from Crete. |
| Acts 27:25 | So be of good courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be so, just as (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) it has been told me. |
| Acts 27:27 | And when it was the fourteenth night, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about (kata | κατά | prep-acc) midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. |
| Acts 27:29 | Fearing that we might run aground on (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. |
| Acts 28:16 | And when we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) himself, with a soldier guarding him. |
| Romans 1:3 | the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the flesh, |
| Romans 1:4 | and was designated Son of God with power according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| Romans 1:15 | So for (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc) my part I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. |
| Romans 2:2 | And we know that the judgment of God is according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to truth with respect to those who practice such things. |
| Romans 2:5 | But because (kata | κατά | prep-acc) of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed, |
| Romans 2:6 | who will give to each person according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to what he has done: |
| Romans 2:7 | to those who by (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) patiently doing good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; |
| Romans 2:16 | on the day when God judges the secrets of everyone according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to my gospel through Christ Jesus. |
| Romans 3:2 | Much in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) every way. first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
kata as in we're working against catastrophe