STRONGS NUMBER G2687


Word Summary
katastellō: to keep down
Original Word: καταστέλλω
Transliteration: katastellō
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-as-tel'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to keep down
Meaning: to keep down
Strong's Concordance
appease, quiet.

From kata and stello; to put down, i.e. Quell -- appease, quiet.

see GREEK kata

see GREEK stello

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2687: καταστέλλω

καταστέλλω: 1 aorist participle καταστείλας; perfect passive participle κατεσταλμενος;

a. properly, to send or put down, to lower.

b. to put or keep down one who is roused or incensed, to repress, restrain, appease, quiet: τινα, Acts 19:35; 3Macc. 6:1; Josephus, Antiquities 20, 8, 7; b. j. 4, 4, 4; Plutarch, mor., p. 207 e.