κατα·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ |
Noun (Fem. 1st Decl.)
Perseus Dictionary Entry (Liddell and Scott [and Jones]'s Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed., 1925-1940)
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ἀπὸ/πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου:Nida and Taber...restructures KATALOLHS KOSMOU in Ephesians 1:4 to the kernel "(God) creates the world." The NIV follows this lead and translates the clause this way: "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world." Most readers would get the impression that the reference here is Genesis 1:1 and the creation of the earth and the universe. However, KATABOLH does not refer to creation in the NT and an alternative view is that it refers to begetting children (Hebrews 11:11,) and that Ephesians 1:4 refer to the children of our first parents.http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/1999-August/006979.html
Occurrences in the GNT
Occurrences in the LXX
Related Words
| ἀμφι+βάλλω | to casting a net (v.) (casting about) |
| ἀνα+βάλλω | to put back (v.) put off, defer, throw up, put on, delay |
| ἀνα·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | Εξοφλείται (n.) |
| ἀντι+βάλλω | to exchange (v.) exchange words in conversation |
| ἀντι·παρα+βάλλω [LXX] | to to hold side by side to compare or contrast (v.) |
| ἀπο+βάλλω | to discard (v.) |
| ἀπο·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | loss (n.) Lit: cast-away. Hence: that which is thrown away, lost |
| βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | throw before (n.) radiance, rays, payment,quick glances |
| δια+βάλλω | to allege/make accusation against (v.) (accusation) |
| διά·βολος -ον | diabolical (adj.) Slanderous, hurtful, or corrupting. One who slanders, hurts, and corrupts (casting or sowing throughout). |
| ἐκ+βάλλω | to expel (v.) Lit: "throw-out", more or less forcibly; hence expel/eject/cast-out. But (as with the root βάλλω) sometimes without the connotation of force, such as send out, take out, bring out, remove. |
| ἐκ·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | jettison (n.) |
| ἐμ+βάλλω | to inject (v.) Lit:"cast-in". |
| ἐπι+βάλλω | to cast upon (v.) [put the mind on, impose, inflict, cast upon] |
| κατα+βάλλω | to cast down (v.) bring down (to nothing), defy |
| κατα·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | deposit (n.) a laying down. from the foundations |
| λιθο·βολέω | to stone (v.) kill with stones, pelt with stones |
| μετα+βάλλω | to change/alter (v.) |
| παρα+βάλλω | to throw beside/by (v.) [rarely: proverb] |
| παρα·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | parable (n.) (not proverb) παρα frοm + βολή throw radiance |
| παρα·συμ+βάλλω [LXX] | to to be compared/ like (v.) |
| παρ·εμ+βάλλω | to encamp (v.) Lit:"encamp-close-beside" |
| παρ·εμ·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | camp (n.) , barracks, army |
| περι+βάλλω | to adorn with (v.) [throw around] |
| προ+βάλλω | to put forth (v.) |
| συμ+βάλλω | to concur together (v.) contribute, cooperate, conduce to |
| ὑπερ·βαλλόντως | surpassingly (adv.) |
| ὑπερ+βάλλω | to exceed (v.) |
| ὑπερ·βολή, -ῆς, ἡ | a-surpassing (n.) [Lit: a-throwing-beyond. an exceeding] |
| ὑπο+βάλλω | to to throw put or lay under (v.) to lay under, as a foundation; to subject, submit; Mid. to substitute another's child for one's own; to suggest, whisper, as a prompter does; Mid. to appropriate |
| βάλλω | to throw (v.) throw, cast; but sometimes loses it's "forceful" connotation and becomes simply a verb of motion such as "put" or "bring" |