Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to ruin
Usage: κατα-σκάπτω [in LXX for נָתַץ, הָרַס, etc. ;] to dig down: Rom.11:3 (LXX).† (AS)
Kataskapto means “dig down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2679 — chatsihammenuchoth (“half of the Manahethites”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2679 κατασκάπτω (kataskapto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataskapto (kat-as-kap'-to) v. 1. to undermine 2. (by implication) destroy It has 28 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include down. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kataskapto (kat-as-kap'-to) v. 1. to undermine 2. (by implication) destroy [from G2596 and G4626] KJV: dig down, ruin Root(s): G2596, G4626
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to ruin
Usage: κατα-σκάπτω [in LXX for נָתַץ, הָרַס, etc. ;] to dig down: Rom.11:3 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataskapto, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2679 (κατασκάπτω) appears 27 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.
And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, When I return in peace, I will break down this tower.
And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Abron, till ye come to the sea.
Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as a god.
he stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2679.
And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.
And Gideon said to the men of Penuel, When I return in peace, I will break down this tower.
And he built up the stones in the name of the Lord, and repaired the altar that had been broken down; and he made a trench that would hold two measures of seed round about the altar.
And Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thee: they have dug down thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.
And it came to pass at the return of the year, at the time of the going forth of kings to war, that Joab gathered the whole force of the army, and they ravaged the land of the children of Ammon; and he came and besieged Rabbah. But David abode in Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah and destroyed it.
And Hezekiah strengthened himself, and built all the wall that had been pulled down, and the towers, and another wall in front without, and fortified the strong place of the city of David, and prepared arms in abundance.
utterly destroyed every beautiful vessel.
But by the mouths of ungodly men it is overthrown.
Wise women build houses: But a foolish one digs hers down with her hands.
And he becomes destitute, And his stone walls are broken down.
Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.
The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.
Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses; for they are the Lord’s.
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall not labor in vain, nor the nations fail in their rule.
And I will break down the wall which ye have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and ye shall be consumed with rebukes: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thy high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.
And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited.
They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.
The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the winepresses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.
In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Abron, till ye come to the sea.
Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as a god.
he stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2679, grouped by book.
Kataskapto (Strong's G2679) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dig down". kataskapto (kat-as-kap'-to) v. 1. to undermine 2. (by implication) destroy
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's G2679 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2679 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as down. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2679, with linked reader references where each row is available.