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2647 ~καταλύω~ kataluo \@kat-al-oo’-o\@ from 2596 and 3089; v AV-destroy 9, throw down 3, lodge 1, guest 1, come to nought 1, overthrow 1, dissolve 1; 17
- 1) to dissolve, disunite
- 1a) (what has been joined together), to destroy, demolish
- 1b) metaph. to overthrow i.e. render vain, deprive of success, bring to naught
- 1b1) to subvert, overthrow
- 1b1a) of institutions, forms of government, laws, etc., to deprive of force, annul, abrogate, discard
- 1c) of travellers, 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, more correctly from the fact that the traveller’s garments, tied up when he is on the journey, are unloosed at it end)