Verb kathaireō (to take down, to bring down) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Mark

15: 36And someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down (kathaireō)."
15: 46Then Joseph bought a linen cloth, and taking down (kathaireō) the body, wrapped it in the linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. He then rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

Luke

1: 52He has brought down (kathaireō) the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly;
12: 18Then he said, 'I will do this: I will bring down (kathaireō) my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
23: 53Then he took it down (kathaireō), wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been laid.

Acts

13: 19After he had brought down (kathaireō) seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance
13: 29When they had carried out everything that was written about him, they took him down (kathaireō) from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
19: 27And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be brought down (kathaireō), and she will be deprived of her majesty that brought all Asia and the world to worship her."