King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G2726
Transliteration: katēpheia
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ay'-fi-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dejection
Meaning: dejection
κατήφεια, κατηφειας, ἡ (from κατηφής, of a downcast look; and this from κατά, and τά φαη the eyes; Etym. Magn. (496, 53) κατήφεια. ἀπό τοῦ κάτω τά φαη βάλλειν τούς ὀνειδιζομενους ἤ λυπουμενους; because, as Plutarch,de dysopia (others,de vitioso pudore (528 e.))
Word Summary
katēpheia: dejection
Original Word: κατήφειαTransliteration: katēpheia
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ay'-fi-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: dejection
Meaning: dejection
Strong's Concordance
gloominess, dejectionFrom a compound of kata and perhaps a derivative of the base of phaino (meaning downcast in look); demureness, i.e. (by implication) sadness -- heaviness.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK phaino
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2726: κατήφειακατήφεια, κατηφειας, ἡ (from κατηφής, of a downcast look; and this from κατά, and τά φαη the eyes; Etym. Magn. (496, 53) κατήφεια. ἀπό τοῦ κάτω τά φαη βάλλειν τούς ὀνειδιζομενους ἤ λυπουμενους; because, as Plutarch,de dysopia (others,de vitioso pudore (528 e.))
c. 1 says, it is λύπη κάτω βλέπειν ποιοῦσα), properly, a downcast look expressive of sorrow; hence, shame, dejection, gloom (A. V. heaviness"): James 4:9. (Homer, Iliad 3, 51; 16, 498 etc.; Thucydides 7, 75; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1; Plutarch, Cor. 20; (Pelop. 33, 3, and often; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Char., etc.); often in Philo.)