Lexical Summary kathairesis: a pulling down Original Word: καθαίρεσιςTransliteration: kathairesis Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ah'-ee-res-is) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a pulling down Meaning: a pulling down Strong's Concordance destruction, pulling down. From kathaireo; demolition; figuratively, extinction -- destruction, pulling down. see GREEK kathaireo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2506: καθαίρεσιςκαθαίρεσις, καθαιρεσεως, ἡ (καθαιρέω, which see), a pulling down, destruction, demolition: ὀχυρωμάτων (A. V. of strongholds), 2 Corinthians 10:4 (τῶν τειχῶν, Xenophon, Hell. 2, 2, 15; 5, 1, 35; Polybius 23, 7, 6; Diodorus excerpt. leg. 13; destructio murorum, Suetonius, Galba 12); εἰς οἰκοδομήν καί οὐκ εἰς καθαίρεσιν ὑμῶν, for building up (increasing) not for casting down (the extinction of) the godly, upright, blessed life you lead in fellowship with Christ (see οἰκοδομή, 1): 2 Corinthians 10:8; 2 Corinthians 13:10. (From Thucydides down.) |
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