καταλύω

kataluvw kataluvw; future
kataluvsw; 1 aorist
katevlusa; 1 aorist passive
kateluqhn; 1 future passive 3 person singular
kataluqhvsetai; to dissolve, disunite (see, III. 4); a. (what has been joined together) equivalent to to destroy, demolish:
livqou" (A. V. throw down), ; ; ;
tovn
naovn, ; ; ; ; ;
oijkivan, ; universally opposed to
oijkodomei'n, (2 Esdr. ; Homer, Iliad 9, 24f; 2, 117;
teuch, Euripides, Tro. 819;
gevfuran, Herodian, 8, 4, 4 (2 edition, Bekker)). b. metaphorically, to overthrow, i. e. to render vain, to deprive of success, to bring to naught:
thvn
boulhvn
h[
tov
e[rgon, (
tav"
ajpeilav", );
tina, to render fruitless one's desires, endeavors, etc. ibid. 39 G L T Tr WH (Plato, legg. 4, p. 714 c.); to subvert, overthrow:
tov
e[rgon
tou'
Qeou' (see
ajgaqov", 2), . As in classical Greek from Herodotus down, of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard:
tovn
novmon, (; Xenophon, mem. 4, 4, 14; Isocrates paneg. sec. 55; Philost. v., Apoll. 4, 40). c. of travelers, to halt on a journey, to put up, lodge (the figurative expression originating in the circumstance that, to put up for the night, the straps and packs of the beasts of burden are unbound and taken off; or, perhaps more correctly, from the fact that the traveler's garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at its end; cf.
ajnaluvw, 2): ; ; so in Greek writings from Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato down; the Septuagint for @Wl, ; ,, etc.; ,; ; (cf. Buttmann, 145 (127)).*