katargevw katargevw, katavrgw; future katarghvsw; 1 aorist kathvrghsa; perfect kathvrghka; passive, present katargou'mai; perfect kathvrghmai; 1 aorist kathrghvqhn; 1 future katarghqhvsomai; causative of the verb ajrgevw, equivalent to ajrgovn (i. e. ajergon (on the accent cf. Chandler sec. 444)) poiw'; frequent with Paul, who uses it 25 times (elsewhere in N. T. only twice (Luke, Heb.), in the Septuagint 4 times (2 Esdr., see below)); 1. to render idle, unemployed, inactive, inoperative: thvn gh'n, to deprive of its strength, make barren (A. V. cumber), ; to cause a person or a thing to have no further efficiency; to deprive of force, influence, power (A. V. bring to nought, make of none effect): tiv, ; ; tina, (but in passive); diabolic powers, (Justin Martyr, Apology 2, 6); Antichrist, ; tovn qavnaton, (Epistle of Barnabas 5, 6); tovn diavbolon, ; passive ; to make void, thvn ejpaggelivan, ; passive . 2. to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish: tiv, ; ; tovn novmon, ; ; tovn kairovn tou' ajnovmou, Epistle of Barnabas 15, 5; passive povlemo" katargei'tai ejpouranivwn kaiv ejpigeivwn, Ignatius ad , ; ; i{na katarghqh'/ tov sw'ma th'" aJmartiva", that the body of sin might be done away, i. e. not the material of the body, but the body so far forth as it is an instrument of sin; accordingly, that the body may cease to be an instrument of sin, . Passive to cease, pass away, be done away: of things, ; ,; ,,f; of persons, followed by ajpov tivno", to be severed from, separated from, discharged from, loosed from, anyone; to terminate all contact with one (a pregnant construction, cf. Winer's Grammar, 621 (577); Buttmann, 322 (277)): ajpov tou' Cristou', (on the aorist cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 40, 5 b.); ajpov tou' novmou, : (2 (R^elz omits tou' novmou)),6. The word is rarely met with in secular authors, as Euripides, Phoen. 753 katavrgein cera, to make idle, i. e. to leave the hand unemployed; Polybius quoted in Suidas (s. v. kathrghkenai) touv" kairouv", in the sense of to let slip, leave unused; in the Septuagint four times for Chaldean lFeB', to make to cease, i. e. restrain, check, hinder, 2 Esdr. , ; ; .*