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Strong's #2600 - κατάβασις
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- descent
- the act of descending
- the place of descent
- that part of the mountain where the descent is made
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κατά-βᾰσις, εως, ἡ,
opp. ἀνάβασις,
1. way down, descent, Hdt. 1.186 (pl.), 7.223, etc.; ἡ εἰς Ἅιδου κ. Isoc. 10.20, Str. 8.6.12, cf. Hdt. 2.122; title of work by Dicaearchus, Cic. Att. 13.31.2; cf. καταίβασις.
2. descent from central Asia, X. An. 5.5.4; ἡ ἐπὶ θάλατταν κ. D.S. 14.25.
3. metaph., descent of an idea into the mind, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.242.
4. steep ground, declivity, Demetr. Eloc. 248 (pl.).
5. ἔργον καταβάσεως hanging work, LXX 3 Ki. 7.16(29).
κατάβασις, καταβάσεως, ἡ (καταβαίνω) (from Herodotus down), descent;
a. the act of descending.
b. the place of descent: τοῦ ὄρους, i. e. that part of the mountain where the descent is made, Luke 19:37; so Joshua 10:11 the Sept.; Diodorus 4, 21; opposed to ἀνάβασις, the place of ascent way up, 1 Macc. 3:16, 24; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 2, 3. So Latindescensus; cf. Herzog on Sall. Cat. 57, 3.
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In P Grenf II. 67.15 (A.D. 237) in connexion with a village festival three asses are provided for the conveyance of certain dancing girls ";down and back again";—ὑπὲρ καταβάσεως καὶ ἀναβάσεως.
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