2647 – καταλύω (kataluo)

destroy

Description

1. To dissolve, disunite.
   1. (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish.
   2. Metaphor, 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).

Origin

From G2596 and G3089:

Word root

Word with kataluo as root:

Equivalent Hebrew/Aramaic words

In the Greek Septuagint (LXX) translation, the following Hebrew/Aramaic words have been translated into kataluo :

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