Acts 19:16:18Acts.19.16.W18TAB
κατʼ
kat
“against”
- Transliteration
- kat
- Extended
- kaht
- IPA
- /kat/
Meaning by language
- English
- against
Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top |
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Word in context
- word
kat
- sentence
kai e-pha-LO-me-nos ho AN-thrô-pos ep au-TOUS en hôi ÊN to PNEU-ma to po-nê-RON ka-ta-ky-ri-EU-sas am-pho-TE-rôn IS-khy-sen kai kat au-TÔN HÔ-ste gym-NOUS kai te-trau-ma-tis-ME-nous ek-phy-GEIN ek tou OI-kou e-KEI-nou
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase kat’ autōn {κατ’ αὐτῶν | kat autōn} conveys opposition, reinforcing the adversarial nature of the encounter.
Root and etymology
stellōsigma–tau–epsilon–lambda–lambda–omicron–omega
“to bring down, restrain”
In context — Acts 19:16
And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering all of them, prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.
About this coordinate
Acts 19:16:18 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 18 of Acts 19:16, so the Greek word κατʼ (kat) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.19.16.W18, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.19.16.W18.S1) and character.