Vocabulary Form
κατά
Definition

gen: against;
acc: according to

Erasmian
Modern
Frequency
473
GK
2848
Cognates

Cata is a common combining form meaning "down."

Catabasis is the declining stage of a disease.

Catalogue (katavlogoV) is a counting down in the sense of creating a list.

A catastrophe (katastrofhv) is a sudden disaster, a down turn.

Biblical Concordance

Hebrews 7:15 And it is even more obvious that if, according to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the likeness of Melchizedek, another priest arises,
Hebrews 7:16 he does so not on the basis of (kata | κατά | prep-acc) a law expressed in a carnal commandment, but on the basis of (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the power of an indestructible life.
Hebrews 7:17 For it is attested of him, “You are a priest forever, according to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 7:20 And since (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) this was not done without an oath (for others have become priests without an oath,
Hebrews 7:22 accordingly (kata | κατά | prep-acc) Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
Hebrews 7:27 He has no need to offer up daily (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) sacrifices, like those other high priests, first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 8:4 So if he had been on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already those who offer the gifts prescribed by (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the law.
Hebrews 8:5 The place where they serve is a shadowy suggestion of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for he said, “See that you make everything according to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I abandoned them, says the Lord.
Hebrews 9:5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of forgiveness. Of these things we cannot now speak in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) detail.
Hebrews 9:9 This is an illustration pointing to the present time, during (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) which the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper so far as (kata | κατά | prep-acc) his conscience is concerned,
Hebrews 9:19 For when every commandment of (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and goats together with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Hebrews 9:22 In fact, according (kata | κατά | prep-acc) to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the law almost everything is sprinkled with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Hebrews 9:25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc) year with blood not his own,
Hebrews 9:27 And just (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that to experience judgment,
Hebrews 10:1 For since the law is but a shadow of the good things to come and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect those who draw near by the same sacrifices which they offer continuously year after (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc) year.
Hebrews 10:3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after (kat | κατ᾿ | prep-acc) year.
Hebrews 10:8 After he said what I just quoted, “You did not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings (namely those offered according to (kata | κατά | prep-acc) the law),
Hebrews 10:11 Furthermore, every priest stands day after (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) day performing his religious duties, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, having been warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and built an ark for the safety of his household. By this act of faith he condemned humanity and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by (kata | κατά | prep-acc) faith.
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) faith, without receiving the fulfillment of the promises, but they saw them from a distance and greeted them. They acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles in the land.
Hebrews 12:10 For they disciplined us for a short time as (kata | κατά | prep-acc) it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our benefit, so that we may share his holy character.
James 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law as set forth in (kata | κατά | prep-acc) this scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
James 2:17 In the same way faith, if it has no works, is dead, since it is by (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) itself.
James 3:9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in (kath | καθ᾿ | prep-acc) the likeness of God.