Strong's Greek · G2673
G2673 katargéō
καταργέω
kat-arg-eh'-o
to abate
Looking for Hebrew H2673 châtsâh? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G2673. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
katargéō appears 27 times in Scripture, including Luke 13:7 and Romans 3:3. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
In the King James Version
abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void
Derivation
Appears 27 times in Scripture
“But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.”
“The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.”
“So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’”
“Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.”
“He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,”
“For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.”
“For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,”
“What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?”
“We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
