katabaivnw katabaivnw; imperfect 3 person plural katevbainon; future katabhvsomai; 2 aorist katevbhn, imperative katavbhqi (; ; ; ) and katavba ( (R G (where L T Tr WH participle katabav")), see ajnabaivnw); perfect katabevbhka; (from Homer on); the Septuagint for dr'y:; to go down, come down, descend;1. of persons; a. properly: absolutely, the place from which one has come down being evident from the context, katabav" e[sth, (cf. 12); (followed here by an infinitive, so ); f; ; ; ; followed by ajpov with the genitive of the place, ; ; Rec.;,; (L Tr marginal reading WH text ejk); ,; by ejk with the genitive of place, G L T Tr WH (see ejk, I. 3); by eij" with the accusative of place, (R G L brackets Tr; others omit eij" etc.); ; (); . b. to come down, as from the temple at Jerusalem, from the city of Jerusalem; also of celestial beings coming down to earth: absolutely, ; ; ; ,,; Acts (7:34); ; ; (23:10); ,; followed by ajpov with the genitive of the place, ; ; ; ; ejk tou' oujranou', ; ; ; , (R G; others ajpov), 41f, 50f, 58 (on these passages cf. Buttmann, 297 (255)); ; ; , followed by eij" with the accusative of place, ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; by ejpiv with the accusative of place, ; with the accusative of the person; (R G L marginal reading); ; , (52); by ejn with dative of place, (R L) (see ejn, I. 7); by prov" with the accusative of person, ; ; contextually equivalent to to be cast down, of the devil, .2. of things, to come (i. e. be sent) down: (Rec. adds ejp! aujtovn); ; followed by ajpov with a genitive of person, ; ejk tou' oujranou' ajpov tou' Qeou', ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Rev 21