καθαιρέω

kaqairevw kaqairevw,
kaqaivrw; future
kaqelw' ( (see
ajfairevw, at the beginning)); 2 aorist
kaqei'lon (from the obsolete
evJlw); present passive
kaqairou'mai; from Homer down; the Septuagint for dyrI/h, to cause to go down; sr'h;, $t'n:, $r'P;;1. to take down: without the notion of violence,
tina, to detach from the cross one crucified, ,; (Polybius 1, 86, 6; Philo in Flacc. sec. 10);
tina
ajpov
tou'
xuvlou, (the Septuagint ; ); with the use of force, to throw down, cast down:
tina
ajpov
qrovnou, .2. to pull down, demolish:
tav"
ajpoqhvka", opposed to
oijkodomei'n, ;
logismouv", the (subtle) reasonings (of opponents) likened to fortresses, equivalent to to refute, (5); to destroy,
e[qnh, (; Thucydides 1, 4; Aelian v. h. 2, 25);
thvn
megaleiovthta
tivno", , where if preference is given (with L T Tr WH) to the reading
th'"
megaleiovthto"
aujth'", it must be taken as a partitive genitive somewhat of her magnificence; cf. Buttmann, 158 (138) note (so Meyer; cf. Xenophon, Hell. 4, 4, 13. Al. translate that she should even be deposed from her magnificence; cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 6; Buttmann, sec. 132, 5).*