What is the Strong's number for Katalyo?

The Strong's number for Katalyo (καταλύω) is G2647. It is a Greek word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

Bible word study

Katalyo (Strong’s G2647): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Katalyo mean?

Katalyo (καταλύω, Strong's G2647) is a Greek word. Strong's defines it as to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night. The King James Bible translates it as destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.

Katalyo (καταλύω) is the Greek word numbered G2647 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night. In the King James Bible it is translated destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought.

καταλύω

katalýō · Greek

Strong’s G2647 · kat-al-oo'-o

Original wordκαταλύω
Transliterationkatalýō
Pronunciationkat-al-oo'-o
Strong’s numberG2647
LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

to loosen down (disintegrate), i.e. (by implication) to demolish (literally or figuratively); specially (compare G2646) to halt for the night

Derivation. from G2596 and G3089;

How the King James Bible translates it

destroy, dissolve, be guest, lodge, come to nought, overthrow, throw down.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Katalyo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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